TY - BOOK AU - Dauber,Philip M. AU - Muller,R. TI - The three big bangs: comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe SN - 0201407523 AV - QB991.B54 D38 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - Reading, Mass. PB - Perseus Books KW - Big bang theory KW - Catastrophes (Geology) KW - Supernovae N1 - "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 ER -