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You might want to check-out the following books at your library or local bookstore:


ASTEROID: EARTH DESTROYER OR NEW FRONTIER?
By Patricia Barnes-Svarney Plenum Press (1996) $25.95

COSMIC CATASTROPHES
By Clark Chapman and David Morrison
Two astronomers write an excellent introduction to collision ideas. Plenum Press (1989)

HAZARDS DUE TO COMETS AND ASTEROIDS

By Tom Gehrels, Editor
University of Arizona Press (1994)

NEMESIS: THE DEATH STAR AND OTHER THEORIES OF MASS EXTINCTIONS

By D. Goldsmith
"An astronomer takes a skeptical look at mass extinction theories. Though more than a decade old, this is a good book for beginners." Walker and Co. (1985)

KILLER ASTEROIDS (WEIRD AND WACKY SCIENCE)
By Margaret Poynter
Enslow Publishing (1996)

IMPACT! THE THREAT OF COMETS AND ASTEROIDS

By Gerrit L. Verschuur
Paints vivid portraits of the catastrophic collisions of millennia past, including the impact 65 million years ago that many scientists believe killed off the dinosaurs. Oxford University Press (1996)

DINOSAURS, ASTEROIDS, AND SUPERSTARS

By Franklyn M. Branley
Crowell Publishing Co.


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