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Author Dillow, Gordon, author.

Title Fire in the sky : cosmic collisions, killer asteroids, and the race to defend the Earth / Gordon L. Dillow.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2019.
©2019

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  523.44 DILLOW    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  523.44 DILLOW    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  523.44 DIL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  523.44 DILLOW    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  523.44 DIL    DUE 05-13-23 Billed
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  523.44 DILLOW    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  523.44 DILLOW    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  523.44 DILLOW    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description ix, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-267) and index.
Summary "An historical survey about asteroid hits sustained by Earth and the defenses being prepared against future asteroid-caused catastrophe"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Impact! -- Miraculous apparitions in the ayre -- Asteroid miners -- Star wounds -- T-rex with a string of pearls -- Asteroid hunters -- Planetary defense -- Asteroid killers -- Asteroid wars -- Epilogue.
Subject Asteroids -- Collisions with Earth.
Impact craters.
Earth (Planet) -- Surface.
Collisions (Astrophysics)
Near-Earth objects.
Asteroids -- Collisions with Earth. (OCoLC)fst00819291
Collisions (Astrophysics) (OCoLC)fst00868303
Impact craters. (OCoLC)fst01748989
Near-Earth objects. (OCoLC)fst01743269
Surface of the Earth. (OCoLC)fst01355112
Other Form: Online version: Dillow, Gordon. Fire in the sky. New York : Scribner, ©2019 9781501187766 (DLC) 2018041222
ISBN 9781501187742 (hardcover)
1501187740 (hardcover)
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