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Rocks from Space

$35.00 

Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters
Revised & Updated Second Edition
By O. Richard Norton
Illustrated by Dorothy S. Norton

From the back cover:

This popular nontechnical introduction to meteorites, asteroids, comets, and impact craters is now even better! With more than 50 new photographs and illustrations, updated and revised text, and fun cosmic humor, the second edition of Rocks from Space probes the latest astronomical discoveries. Watch Sojourner bump its way across Mars. Sneak another look at Comet Hale-Bopp streaking through the dark sky. View photos of the impact scar - twice the size of Earth - where Comet Shoemaker/Levy collided with Jupiter. And learn the latest on meteorite chemistry and classification.

447 pages