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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $10.75
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Manufacturer: Random House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kathy Sawyer
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Publisher: Random House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 576.839
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Publication Date: 2006-02-14
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: In this riveting book, acclaimed journalist Kathy Sawyer reveals the deepest mysteries of space and some of the most disturbing truths on Earth. The Rock from Mars is the story of how two planets and the spheres of politics and science all collided at the end of the twentieth century.
It began sixteen million years ago. An asteroid crashing into Mars sent fragments flying into space and, eons later, one was pulled by the Earth’s gravity onto an icy wilderness near the southern pole. There, in 1984, a geologist named Roberta Score spotted it, launching it on a roundabout path to fame and controversy.
In its new home at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the rock languished on a shelf for nine years, a victim of mistaken identity. Then, in 1993, the geochemist Donald “Duck” Mittlefehldt, unmasked the rock as a Martian meteorite. Before long, specialist Chris Romanek detected signs of once-living organisms on the meteorite. And the obscure rock became a rock star.
But how did nine respected investigators come to make such startling claims about the rock that they triggered one of the most venomous scientific battles in modern memory? The narrative traces the steps that led to this risky move and follows the rippling impact on the scientists’ lives, the future of space exploration, the search for life on Mars, and the struggle to understand the origins of life on Earth.
From the second the story broke in Science magazine in 1996, it spawned waves of excitement, envy, competitive zeal, and calculation. In academia, in government agencies, in laboratories around the world, and even in the Oval Office–where an inquisitive President Clinton had received the news in secret–players of all kinds plotted their next moves. Among them: David McKay, the dynamic geologist associated with the first moon landing, who labored to achieve at long last a second success; Bill Schopf of UCLA, a researcher determined to remain at the top of his field and the first to challenge McKay’s claims; Dan Goldin, the boss of NASA; and Dick Morris, the controversial presidential adviser who wanted to use the story for Clinton’s reelection and unfortunately made sure it ended up in the diary of a $200-an-hour call girl.
Impeccably researched and thrillingly involving, Kathy Sawyer’s The Rock from Mars is an exemplary work of modern nonfiction, a vivid account of the all-too-human high-stakes drive to learn our true place in the cosmic scheme.
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Price: $278.00
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Sale: $226.98
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Monica M. Grady
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.5107442134
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Publication Date: 2000-10-16
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Reading Level: 696
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Description: `his fifth edition of Catalogue of Meteorites will, like previous editions, be the essential reference volume for all those with an informed interest in meteorites. It is the definitive descriptive list of the British Natural History Museum, which maintains the offical world database of all known meteorite falls and finds. Coverage includes the 10,000 new specimens recovered since the publication of the fourth edition, including those from Antarctica. Plus, for the first time, a CD-ROM accompanies the book, which includes greatly expanded information and an important search facility.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $16.99
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Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kathleen Mark
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.397
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Publication Date: 1995-11-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: The scientific community has argued for decades over the origin of giant craters on the earth. In a highly readable fashion, Kathleen Mark recounts the fascinating detective story of how scientists came to recognize metorite craters, both ancient and relatively recent.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Roy A. Gallant
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.510957
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Publication Date: 2002-01-23
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Reading Level: 231
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Description: The "Indiana Jones of Astronomy" takes readers on a fascinating hunt for scientific treasures On the morning of June 30, 1908, a comet nucleus or stony asteroid weighing 100,000 metric tons exploded four miles above the remote Siberian region of Tunguska with a force hundreds of times greater than the blast that destroyed Hiroshima. Eighty-four years later, American astronomer Roy Gallant was invited by the Russian Academy of Sciences to participate in its annual Tunguska Expedition. Gallant was the first American to take part in the Russian investigation of the largest meteorite impact in recorded history. So inspired was he by his experiences at Tunguska that he went on to devote the next eight years of his life to investigating and writing about meteorite impact sites around the globe. In Meteorite Hunter, Roy Gallant takes readers on a fascinating journey to the major meteorite sites of the wild and desolate Russian interior.
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Price: $37.95
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Sale: $127.10
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Harry Y. McSween
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.51
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Publication Date: 1987-06-26
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Reading Level: 258
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Description: This second edition has been thoroughly revised and describes the nature of meteorites, where they come from, and how they get to Earth.
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert T. Dodd
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.51
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Publication Date: 1981-11-30
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the Solar System. This book considers the mechanism and timing of core formation and basaltic volcanism on asteroids, and the effects of heating water-rich bodies. Results from meteorite research are placed in a galactic setting, and a theory is proposed for the origin of the planets of our Solar System. This advanced yet succinct introduction classifies meteorites in the context of their ages and origin.
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard R. Willey
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.51
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Publication Date: 1986-12-17
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Reading Level: 47
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Description: The Tucson Meteorites were discovered during the first half of the 19th century on the desolate Mexican frontier that later became Arizona. In this book, Richard R. Willey recounts the bizarre history of these meteorites and explores the mystery, unresolved to the present day, of where the meteorites fell to earth and whether more fragments remain to be found. 14 illustrations .
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Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.51
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Publication Date: 1988-11
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Reading Level: 1269
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $74.65
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Manufacturer: W.H. Freeman & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John T. Wasson
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Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.51
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Publication Date: 1985-06
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Reading Level: 267
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Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Derek W. G. Sears
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Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.51
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Publication Date: 1988-06
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Reading Level: 98
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