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Author Dillow, Gordon, author.

Title Fire in the sky : an ancient asteroid, cosmic impacts and the battle to save Earth / by Gordon L. Dillow.

Publisher New York : Scribner, c2019.

ISBN 9781501187742 (hardcover)



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Description 277 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Impact! -- Miraculous apparitions in the ayre -- Star wounds -- T-rex with a string of pearls -- Asteroid hunters -- Planetary defense -- Asteroid killers -- Asteroid wars -- Epilogue.
Summary "An historical survey about asteroid hits sustained by Earth and the defenses being prepared against future asteroid-caused catastrophe"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject(S) Asteroids -- Collisions with Earth.
Impact craters.
Collisions (Astrophysics)
Near-Earth objects.
Earth (Planet) -- Surface.
ISBN 9781501187742 (hardcover)