The three big bangs : comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe /
Dauber, Philip M.
The three big bangs : comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe / Philip M. Dauber, Richard A. Muller. - Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1996. - viii, 207 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
"Helix books"--tp.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.
Three big bangs -- Comet crashes: Jupiter crash -- Target earth -- Controversy -- Smoking gun -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Nemesis and mass extinctions -- Spaceguard -- Impacts and evolution -- Exploding stars: New star -- Stars are us -- Secret lives and violent deaths of stars -- Peculiar progeny of a supernova -- Supernova hunters -- Creation of the universe: Creation -- Fleeing galaxies -- Microwaves in the sky -- Snapshot of creation -- Of matter and antimatter -- Universes finite and infinite -- Cosmological candles -- Three big bangs revisited.Three big bangs -- Comet crashes: Jupiter crash -- Target earth -- Controversy -- Smoking gun -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Nemesis and mass extinctions -- Spaceguard -- Impacts and evolution -- Exploding stars: New star -- Stars are us -- Secret lives and violent deaths of stars -- Peculiar progeny of a supernova -- Supernova hunters -- Creation of the universe: Creation -- Fleeing galaxies -- Microwaves in the sky -- Snapshot of creation -- Of matter and antimatter -- Universes finite and infinite -- Cosmological candles -- Three big bangs revisited.
0201407523 0201154951 (pbk.)
z 95024451
Big bang theory.
Catastrophes (Geology)
Supernovae.
QB991.B54 / D38 1996
The three big bangs : comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe / Philip M. Dauber, Richard A. Muller. - Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1996. - viii, 207 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
"Helix books"--tp.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.
Three big bangs -- Comet crashes: Jupiter crash -- Target earth -- Controversy -- Smoking gun -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Nemesis and mass extinctions -- Spaceguard -- Impacts and evolution -- Exploding stars: New star -- Stars are us -- Secret lives and violent deaths of stars -- Peculiar progeny of a supernova -- Supernova hunters -- Creation of the universe: Creation -- Fleeing galaxies -- Microwaves in the sky -- Snapshot of creation -- Of matter and antimatter -- Universes finite and infinite -- Cosmological candles -- Three big bangs revisited.Three big bangs -- Comet crashes: Jupiter crash -- Target earth -- Controversy -- Smoking gun -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Nemesis and mass extinctions -- Spaceguard -- Impacts and evolution -- Exploding stars: New star -- Stars are us -- Secret lives and violent deaths of stars -- Peculiar progeny of a supernova -- Supernova hunters -- Creation of the universe: Creation -- Fleeing galaxies -- Microwaves in the sky -- Snapshot of creation -- Of matter and antimatter -- Universes finite and infinite -- Cosmological candles -- Three big bangs revisited.
0201407523 0201154951 (pbk.)
z 95024451
Big bang theory.
Catastrophes (Geology)
Supernovae.
QB991.B54 / D38 1996