About this title: It was a lucky twist of fate when in the early 1980's David Levy, a writer and amateur astronomer, joined up with the famous scientist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife, Carolyn, to search for comets from an observation post on Palomar Mountain in Southern California. Their collaboration would lead to the 1993 discovery of the most remarkable comet ever recorded, Shoemaker-Levy 9, with its several nuclei, five tails, and two sheets of debris spread out in its orbit plane. A year later, Levy would be by the Shoemakers' side again when their comet ended its four-billion-year-long journey through ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:9780691002255ISBN:0691002258
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780691002255ISBN:0691002258
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ISBN-13:9780691002255ISBN:0691002258
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780691002255ISBN:0691002258
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Hardcover first printing, book and dustjacket are AS NEW and our removable protective mylar cover makes this copy "better than new, " biography of this comet discoverer and founder of the impact theory for the origin of craters on the moon and elsewhere in our solar system, illustrated with photos. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2000
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Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780691002255ISBN:0691002258
Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2002-11-04
ISBN-13:9780691113258ISBN:0691113254
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780691002255ISBN:0691002258
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780691002255ISBN:0691002258
Description: Near fine condition hardback without jacket. Eugene Shoemaker (1928-1997) is best known to the general public for his discovery, along with his wife, Carolyn, and author Levy, of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which slammed into the planet Jupiter in 1994. read more
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