Natalie Starkey

Catching Stardust

Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An up-close and personal look at comets and how we can use these ancient voyagers to understand our place in the solar system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 139mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781472944009
• ISBN-10: 1472944003
• Artikelnr.: 49980038

Autorenporträt

Natalie Starkey is a geologist and cosmochemist. Following a PhD at Edinburgh University studying the geochemistry of Arctic volcanoes, Natalie's post-doctoral work at The Open University shifted her research focus to comet and asteroid samples. It was at this time she got the chance to analyse samples returned by the NASA Stardust and JAXA Hayabusa space missions. Natalie's passion for her research makes her a keen science communicator. She regularly appears on television and radio internationally, as well as being a science host on Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular StarTalk Radio. Her writing includes numerous articles for the Guardian, and she is a regular contributor to The Conversation website. @starkeystardust / nataliestarkey.com

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A 4.6-Billion-Year Journey into the Deep Freeze
Chapter 3: Comets and Asteroids on Earth
Chapter 4: Shooting Stars and Space Dust
Chapter 5: Water and Life on Earth and in Space
Chapter 6: Taking the Science to Space
Chapter 7: The Stardust Mission
Chapter 8: The Rosetta Mission
Chapter 9: Space Mining
Chapter 10: Mission 'Save Planet Earth'
Epilogue
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Index