Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System

ISBN-13: 9781472955012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Natalie Starkey

Opis

Takes us up close and personal with comets, and explains how we can use these ancient voyagers to understand our place in the Solar System.

Recenzje

Well presented and bridges many gaps between different observational methods. Science

Spis treści

Preface Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: A 4.6-Billion-Year Journey into the Deep FreezeChapter 3: Comets and Asteroids on EarthChapter 4: Shooting Stars and Space DustChapter 5: Water and Life on Earth and in SpaceChapter 6: Taking the Science to SpaceChapter 7: The Stardust MissionChapter 8: The Rosetta MissionChapter 9: Space Mining Chapter 10: Mission 'Save Planet Earth'EpilogueGlossaryAcknowledgementsIndex

O autorze

Natalie Starkey is a geologist, cosmochemist and science communicator. Natalie's doctorate at Edinburgh University on the geochemistry of Arctic volcanoes saw her travelling to the volcanic lava-fields of Iceland and the ancient volcanoes of northern Scotland, and she also spent time as a volcanologist on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean. Later, Natalie's postdoctoral research expanded to include the analysis of rock samples from space, which led to her first popular science book, Catching Stardust (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018). Her latest book is Fire and Ice, an exploration of the volcanoes of the solar system. Natalie received a British Science Association Media Fellowship in 2013 to work with the Guardian. She has been a science host on Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular StarTalk Radio, and is now Science Media Producer for Chemistry World at The Royal Society of Chemistry. @starkeystardust / nataliestarkey.com