Rocks from Space by Norton, O. Richard

Rocks from Space

This popular nontechnical introduction to the fascinating world of meteorites, asteroids, comets, and impact craters is now...
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Author: O. Richard Norton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Rocks from Space by Norton, O. Richard

Rocks from Space

€57,96

Rocks from Space

€57,96
Author: O. Richard Norton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This popular nontechnical introduction to the fascinating world of meteorites, asteroids, comets, and impact craters is now even better With more than 50 new photographs and updated illustrations, new and expanded appendixes, and some fun cosmic humor, Rocks from Space, Second Edition, journeys into the last frontier for close-up looks at the latest astronomical discoveries. Relive the thrill of seeing Comet Hale-Bopp as it streaked through the dark sky. Watch Pathfinder bump its way across the surface of Mars--while you ponder whether life really exists on the red planet. View photos of the impact scar--twice the size of Earth-where Comet Shoemaker/Levy collided with Jupiter. And learn the latest on meteorite chemistry and classification.

Author: O. Richard Norton
Publisher: Mountain Press
Published: 06/15/1998
Pages: 447
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.02w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780878423736

About the Author
Norton, O. Richard: - O. Richard Norton is former director of the Grace Flandrau Planetarium and Science Center at the University of Arizona and the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada at Reno. He studied meteorites under world-renowned meteoriticist Frederick C. Leonard. Norton taught astronomy at Central Oregon Community College and served as president of Science Graphics, a company that produces instructional science slides for use in college and university classrooms.

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