by Jean-Pierre Luminet · CHERCHE MIDI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782749117799
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«Astéroïdes : la Terre en danger» is the scientific essay by Jean-Pierre Luminet, published by Cherche Midi in paperback (262 pages, in French).
Astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet analyzes the risk of an asteroid striking Earth: what they are, what would happen in a collision, and whether there are means to face it. It is estimated that a thousand tons of celestial matter fall every day and that an impact like Apophis could cause a catastrophe comparable to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The book was published on October 11, 2012, bears the subtitle «Fin du monde : les vraies raisons» and is part of the «Documents» collection.
For readers interested in astronomy and popular science who want to understand with rigor the real risk posed by asteroids.
Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, specializing in black holes and cosmology. He is an emeritus research director at the CNRS. Luminet is a member of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) and Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) of the Paris-Meudon Observatory, and is a visiting scientist at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) in Marseilles. He is also a writer and poet.
