# Asteroids

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- Book: [Asteroids](https://www.bookquiver.com/curtis-peebles/asteroids) ([Asteroids.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/curtis-peebles/asteroids.md))
- Authors: [Curtis Peebles](https://www.bookquiver.com/curtis-peebles)
- Publisher: smithsonian_institution_scholarly_press
- ISBN: 978-15-6098-982-0
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2001-07-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death -- but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered...