Ontdek schitterende kometen met staarten die 150 miljoen kilometer lang zijn. Lees over meteoren die als lichtsporen aan de hemel verschijnen, en kom meer te weten over de planetoiden of miniplaneten die om de zon cirkelen.

€ 13,50 

Meteorites are natural objects that fall to Earth from space. They may be pieces of asteroids, of the Moon, Mars and perhaps even comets. They provide a wealth of information about how the Earth, Sun and planets were formed and how we came to be here.

Find out where meteorites come from, why they fall to Earth, where they usually land and what they are made of in this full-colour guide to this fascinating subject.

Written by experts in mineralogy and meteoritics, this highly informative guide offers a thorough introduction to meteorites.

Reviews

'It was a delight to read such an excellent introduction to meteoritics.'
The Observer

'... a well illustrated and informative account of the present state of knowledge about meteorites and what they tell us of the evolution of life on Earth.'
Geologist's Association Circular

€ 16,50 

This is a must have book for anyone seriously interested in meteorites.  Lists all known meteorites to Dec. 31, 1999. Hardcover book with fully searchable CD-ROM included

€ 197,99  

Beautifully illustrated with over 140 full colour images, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites provides a thorough guide to these fascinating extraterrestrial rocks. Meteorites are our only contact with materials from beyond the Earth-Moon system. Using well known petrologic techniques, this book reveals in vivid colour their extraordinary external and internal structures. Looking deeper still, right to the atomic level, they begin to tell us of the environment within the solar nebula that existed before the planets accreted. In recent years, meteorites have caught the imagination of scientist and collector alike. An army of people are now actively searching for them in the hot and cold deserts of Earth. This book is a valuable guide to assist the searchers in the field to recognize the many classes of meteorites. It is further a reference source for students, teachers and scientists who wish to probe deeper these amazing rocks from space.

€ 54,50  

Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death—but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered and studied. During the past two centuries, the quest for knowledge about asteroids has involved eminent scientists and amateur astronomers, patient research and sudden intuition, advanced technology and the simplest of telescopes, newspaper headlines and Cold War secrets. Today researchers have named and identified the mineral composition of these objects, which range in size from 33 feet to 580 miles wide and most of which are found in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Covering all aspects of asteroid investigation, Curtis Peebles shows how ideas about the orbiting boulders have evolved. He describes how such phenomena as the Moon's craters and dinosaur extinction were gradually, and by some scientists grudgingly, accepted as the results of asteroid impacts. He tells how a band of icy asteroids rimming the solar system, first proposed as a theory in the 1940s, was ignored for more than forty years until renewed interest and technological breakthroughs confirmed the existence of the Kuiper Belt. Peebles also chronicles the discovery of Shoemaker-Levy 9, a comet with twenty-two nuclei that crashed into Jupiter in 1994, releasing many times the energy of the world=s nuclear arsenal.

Showing how asteroid research is increasingly collaborative, the book provides insights into the evolution of scientific ideas and the ebb and flow of scientific debate.

€ 36,99