Sixty-five million years ago, a gigantic asteroid collided with Earth. The resulting dust clouds and fire storm blotted out the sunlight, destroying much of the animal, plant, and fish life most notably, the dinosaurs. What would happen if another giant asteroid found itself on a collision course with Earth? This is the most comprehensive current book for general readers to address the threats and potential benefits of asteroids. Space experts Cox and Chestek explain the major differences between comets and asteroids and describe what might happen should the Earth suffer a collision with either one of them, a distinct future possibility.
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Cox and Chester go for impact with "Doomsday Asteroid",
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This review is from: Doomsday Asteroid: Can We Survive? (Hardcover)
"Doomsday Asteroid" presents an interesting perspective on the problems surrounding Earth's defense against cosmic impact. Part of the defense that Cox and Chester expound upon is a space-based telescope, orbiting the Sun ahead of the Earth, that can provide early warning of an impending collision. If nothing else, "Doomsday Rock" should be read because of the stirring prologue from Arthur C. Clarke's 1973 novel "Rendezvous With Rama". In addition to providing the impetus for the now-famous Rama saga, the prologue also lends it's name to the Spaceguard Survey that NASA undertook in 1992. What detracts from the book is the lack of attention to smaller rocks that threaten the Earth. Although much less likely to cause global destruction, asteroids as small as 100 meters can cause vast devastation in urbanized regions and, in the case of a sea strike, coastal areas. Despite that flaw, "Doomsday Asteroid" is a solid, informative read.
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- Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle by Julian Morris on page 109, and page 125
- Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization by Robert Zubrin in Back Matter
- The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet by Graham Hancock in Back Matter
- Global Geostrategy: Mackinder and the Defence of the West (Geopolitical Theory) by Brian Blouet on page 164
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