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Of all the natural disasters that can befall us, only an Globe impact by a big comet or asteroid gets the potential to get rid of civilization within a blow. Yet these near-Earth items also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's roots, and someday might even provide as stepping-stones for space exploration. In such a publication, Donald Yeomans presents listeners to the science of near-Earth items - its record, applications, and ongoing goal to find near-Earth items before they find us. In its course around the Sun, the Earth passes through a veritable taking pictures gallery of millions of local comets and asteroids. One particular asteroid is thought to have plunged into our world 65 million years ago, triggering a worldwide catastrophe that killed off the dinosaurs. Yeomans has an up-to-date and accessible guide for understanding the threats posed by near-Earth items, and also clarifies how early collisions with them sent the things that made life on Earth possible. He shows how later effects spurred development, allowing only the most flexible species to prosper - in fact, we humans may owe our very existence to items that struck our world. Yeomans needs listeners behind the scenes of today's work to find, keep tabs on, and research near-Earth items. He shows the way the same comets and asteroids probably to collide with us may be mined for valuable natural resources like normal water and oxygen, and used as watering slots and fueling stations for expeditions to Mars and the outermost gets to of your solar system.
