David Levy

Broschiertes Buch

Comets

Creators and Destroyers

Beschreibung

Introductory guide to comets, which covers their genesis and history, the latest scientific discoveries, and suggests their subtle influence on human behaviour. With three films on comets due for release this year, including )Deep Impact( for which Levy was Scientific Adviser, this will no doubt be the first of many comet books.

Autor

David H. Levy is the co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, which slammed into Jupiter in 1994 in a series of spectacular explosions with a force equal to several million tons of TNT. He is the author of More Things in Heaven and Earth, the Man Who Sold the Milky Way, The Ultimate Universe and Impact Jupiter. Levy was asked by Parade Magazine to take over the science column after the death of Carl Sagan. Levy is also the editor of The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780684852553
• ISBN-10: 0684852551
• Artikelnr.: 22004133