Books on Asteroid/Comet Threat


Asteroids, A History (2000) Curtis Peebles

Comets --Creators and Destroyers (2000) David Levy

Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth : Computer Modeling (1999) John S. Lewis

Doomsday Asteroid : Can We Survive? (1998) Donald W. Cox, James H. Chestek

The exploration of near-earth objects (1998) Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration, Space Studies Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

Dynamics of comets and asteroids and their role in earth history : proceedings of a workshop held at the Dynic Astropark 'Ten-Kyu-Kan', (1997) edited by Shin Yabushita and Jacques Henrard.

Rain of Iron and Ice (1996) John Lewis

Asteroid : earth destroyer or new frontier? (1996) Patricia Barnes-Svarney

Cosmic collisions (1996) Dana Desonie

Impact! : the threat of comets and asteroids (1996) Gerrit L. Verschuur

Hazards due to Comets and Asteroids (1994) Tom Gehrels (U of AZ Press)

Asteroids II (1989) Richard P. Binzel, Tom Gehrels, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors (U of AZ Press)

Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution I (1994) and II (1999) (Conference Proceedings)

Asteroids (1979) Tom Gehrels, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors (U of AZ Press)


Books on Mass Extinctions:


Rivers in Time : The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions (2000) Peter Douglas Ward

Night Comes to the Cretaceous : Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs (1999) James Powell

The end of dinosaurs: Chicxulub crater and mass extinctions (1999) Charles Frankel

Evolutionary catastrophes : the science of mass extinction (1999) Vincent Courtillot ; translated by Joe McClinton.

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (1998) Walter Alvarez

Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath (1997) A. Hallam and P.B. Wignall


Textbooks on Cratering, Asteroids

        Moons & planets (1999) William K. Hartmann

        A history of modern planetary physics (1996) Stephen G. Brush