Discusses comets, asteroids, and meteors, including how and where they are formed in space, what scientists are doing to study and track them, and what danger these doomsday rocks are to Earth.
Maps of The locations of asteroid craters on the earth on endpapers.
What happened to the dinosaurs that once roamed Earth?
The reader's choices determine if survival is possible when a huge rock hurdles through space on a collision course with Earth.
So as you stockpile your bottles of water, dig out your bunker, and finesse your plan for a brand new government, keep this book in hand. You won't be sorry.
Hovering on the outermost edge of space, the rogue planet Ormin was waiting to receive them. Ormin, the Doomsday Planet, where all who set foot there were doomed to living death . . .
Fire on Earth reveals that comets have been a continuing problem throughout geological time. It examines the controversial claims that there are 'periodic extinctions' of life on earth linked to a recurring cycle of cometary impacts
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This text examines the various theories, and goes on to look at the future. The authors discuss their belief that the next series of cosmic hits will almost certainly lead to the extinction of humankind.
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