Rocks from Space- Further Reading

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8 Mar 2011: Unfortunately Space.com has decided to drop all archived articles - the following ones can no longer be found on their website.  Please use the PDF links below or get the ebook.

The Planetary Society (USA) Home page for the Australian Volunteer
            Co-ordinators Join TPS Tribute to Carl Sagan Comments on Planetary Science How microbes might hitch a ride
            between planets Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit The Search for Extraterrestrial
            Intelligence The search for Earth-threatening
            comets and asteroids Proposal to revive the Australian
            Spaceguard Program Tsunami ( Correspondence with politicians TPSAVC Home (of course!)


During 1999 I was invited to write a series of articles about Near Earth Objects (NEOs - asteroids, comets and meteorites that occasionally visit the Earth's region of the solar system). With substantial help from Explorezone creator and editor Rob Britt, I have prepared several articles on a wide range of topics related to NEOs and more are planned. Explorezone is now associated with Space.com and these articles now appear on the Space.com website (no longer!)

2022 Note: I have moved many pages from tpg (or tpgi) to a new server. If a tpg link doesn't work please change
http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps-seti/XXX.html to http://www.vdrsyd.com//planet/XXX.html

The PDFs require Adobe Acrobat Reader. They are copies of the Space.com web pages and are subject to copyright. They may be used for research and educational purposes with credit.

Other publications
The following list provides further reading and web links for each of the articles. The references are aimed at a popular science level rather than an expert level. Suggestions for additional links are welcome.

Michael Paine, April 2001.

Chicken Little was right: The sky is falling or web.archive.org

Riches in the rubble of the Solar System or web.archive.org

Asteroids and tsunami: GOOD NEWS AND BAD or web.archive.org

How an asteroid impact causes extinction or web.archive.org

Your ancestors may be Martian or web.archive.org

Did Asteroid-Induced Firestorm Destroy the Dinosaurs?

 Updates about the KT (Dinosaur) extinction

(see also Impacts and mass extinctions and Environmental effects of impacts)

Prospecting for Oil? Look in asteroid impact craters or web.archive.org


Viking Data Still Cause Stir About Mars Life


Search for Large Asteroids Nears Completion, Experts Ponder Gaps in Program.




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Australian Planetary Science