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Death from the Skies!: The Science Behind the End of the World

Paperback • 2009 • English

Death from the Skies!: The Science Behind the End of the World

By Philip Plait

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About the book

With wit, humor, and an infectious love of astronomy that could win over even the science-phobic, this fun and fascinating book reminds us that outer space is anything but remote. The scientist behind the popular website badastronomy.com, Philip Plait presents some of the most fearsome end-of-the-world calamities (for instance, incoming asteroids and planet-swallowing black holes), demystifies the scientific principles at work behind them, and gives us the odds that any of them will step out of ...Show more

Astrophysics
Popular astronomy and space

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9780143116042

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Death from the Skies!: The Science Behind the End of the World

Format

Paperback

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