{"product_id":"cosmic-impact","title":"Cosmic Impact","description":"As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e been wiped out by just such an impact. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Now the science community is making up for lost time, with\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e objects, and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e from a collision course - a procedure depicted, with little regard for\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e event would produce, and - more optimistically - the way future space missions\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e could avert a catastrophe.","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41952189022379,"sku":"","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/products\/32_45afd9cd-8cbf-4e54-aa89-eff1b6879154.jpg?v=1657541610","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/cosmic-impact","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}