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Cosmic Impact

Cosmic Impact

Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets

by Andrew May
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 03/08/2021
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As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realization that the dinosaurs were wiped out by just such an impact. Now the science community is making up for lost time, with worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object from a collision course--a procedure depicted, with little regard for scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies. Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact event would produce, and--more optimistically--the way future space missions could avert a catastrophe.
ISBN:
9781666504781
9781666504781
Category:
Astrophysics
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
03-08-2021
Publisher:
Dreamscape Media
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
128x153x29mm
Weight:
0.18kg
Andrew May

Andrew began his career as an elite middle distance athlete before studying exercise physiology and sports coaching, he then went on to complete a Masters in Coaching Psychology and has recently started his PHD.

He worked as the Physical Performance Manager for the NSW and Australian Cricket teams, the Sydney Swifts and NSW netball teams, as well as with basketball, AFL, tennis and Olympic athletes.

Andrew is a serial entrepreneur having built and sold three businesses including Good Health Solutions (now trading as Executive Health Solutions) Australia’s largest provider of Executive Health Assessments; and in 2016 he sold The Performance Clinic to KPMG where he worked as a Partner for 3 years. Andrew’s latest venture is StriveStronger.com

Andrew produces a popular podcast (Andrew May Podcast) and is the author of bestselling book Flip the Switch. He has a regular segment on ABC News Breakfast and appears on TV, radio and in the press. He delivers energetic and inspiring keynote presentations around the world.

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