Killer rocks from outer space
Subtitle: asteroids, comets, and meteorites
By: by Steven N. Koppes.
Series: Discovery!; Discovery! (Lerner Publications Company)
Publisher: Lerner Publications Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Asteroids -- Juvenile literature.; Comets -- Juvenile literature.; Meteorites -- Juvenile literature.; Asteroids.; Comets.; Meteorites.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Describes the role that collisions with meteors, comets, and asteroids have played in the history of Earth and other planets in the solar system and examines what is being done to protect Earth from future collisions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 109) and index.
Table of contents: title: Recognizing meteorites and impact craters; title: Identifying impact scars; title: Impact and the dinosaurs; title: Impact and periodic mass extinctions; title: Impact, the planets, and the origin of life on earth; title: The continuing threat; title: Defending planet earth.