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| Title Statement | How to kill an asteroid: the real science of planetary defense / Robin George Andrews. |
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| Author | Andrews, Robin George |
| Publication | New York: W.W. Norton & Company,[2024]©2024 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | xviii, 306 pages |
| ISBN | 9781324050193 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07708814 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index. |
| Summary | "There are approximately 25,000 "city killer" asteroids in near-Earth orbit -- and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction, and represent our greatest cosmic threat. But in September 2022, against all odds, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a carefully selected city killer, altering the asteroid's orbit and proving that we stand a chance against them."-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Asteroids--Collisions with Earth--Prevention |
| Near-earth asteroids | |
| By Name | Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Spacecraft) |
