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Cover: 9780300231922 | Asteroids | Martin Elvis | Buch | Englisch | 2021 | EAN 9780300231922
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Asteroids
How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space
Buch von Martin Elvis
Sprache: Englisch

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Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is the asteroid exploration, for motives of love, fear, and greed. Elvis's personal motivation is one of scientific love - asteroid investigations may teach us about the composition of the solar system and the origins of life. A more compelling reason may be fear - of a large asteroid hitting our planet. Finally, Elvis maintains, we should consider greed: asteroids likely hold vast riches, such as large platinum deposits, and mining them could provide both a new industry and a funding source for bolder space exploration. Elvis explains how each motive can be satisfied, and how they help one another. From the origins of life, to "space billiards" and space sports, Elvis looks at how asteroids may be used in the not-so-distant future.
Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is the asteroid exploration, for motives of love, fear, and greed. Elvis's personal motivation is one of scientific love - asteroid investigations may teach us about the composition of the solar system and the origins of life. A more compelling reason may be fear - of a large asteroid hitting our planet. Finally, Elvis maintains, we should consider greed: asteroids likely hold vast riches, such as large platinum deposits, and mining them could provide both a new industry and a funding source for bolder space exploration. Elvis explains how each motive can be satisfied, and how they help one another. From the origins of life, to "space billiards" and space sports, Elvis looks at how asteroids may be used in the not-so-distant future.
Über den Autor
Martin Elvis is an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow with the UK Science Research Council. He has researched X-ray astronomy, black holes, and quasars--and now asteroids. In 2007, he won the Pirelli INTERNETional Award for multimedia science communication. Asteroid 9283 Martinelvis is named after him. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780300231922
ISBN-10: 030023192X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Elvis, Martin
Hersteller: Yale University Press
Maße: 244 x 162 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Martin Elvis
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,63 kg
Artikel-ID: 119062749
Über den Autor
Martin Elvis is an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow with the UK Science Research Council. He has researched X-ray astronomy, black holes, and quasars--and now asteroids. In 2007, he won the Pirelli INTERNETional Award for multimedia science communication. Asteroid 9283 Martinelvis is named after him. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780300231922
ISBN-10: 030023192X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Elvis, Martin
Hersteller: Yale University Press
Maße: 244 x 162 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Martin Elvis
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,63 kg
Artikel-ID: 119062749
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