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La probabilité n'est pas grande, mais elle existe : un jour, un bolide extraterrestre percutera la Terre. Est-ce là cependant tout ce que les météorites nous apprennent ? Matthieu Gounelle nous invite ici à réévaluer nos craintes et, à l'aune des dernières découvertes scientifiques, à apprécier la richesse insoupçonnée des pierres tombées du ciel. D'où viennent-elles ? Quel rôle ont-elles joué dans l'apparition de la vie ? Que nous disent-elles de la formation de la Lune ? Quelle trace de la naissance du système solaire conservent-elles ? Saviez-vous que certaines météorites, vieilles de plusieurs milliards d'années, contiennent de la poussière d'étoiles ? Ce livre nous entraîne depuis la Terre - où sont éparpillés des dizaines de cratères d'impact - jusqu'aux confins de notre Galaxie, là où des étoiles semblables au Soleil continuent de se former. Au terme de ce voyage interplanétaire, sans plus trembler, vous connaîtrez l'émotion qu'il y a à toucher du doigt le mystère de nos origines.

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Meteorites. --- Meteors.

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Des chercheurs, un médiateur scientifique et un journaliste abordent le phénomène des collisions entre la Terre et des astéroïdes : l'origine de ces pierres, la localisation des cratères d'impact, les conséquences sur l'environnement ou encore la probabilité d'une collision majeure.--[Memento]

Cratères météoritiques --- Météores --- Météorites --- astéroïde --- astrophysique --- météore --- Terre (planète) --- univers --- Meteorite craters. --- Meteors. --- Meteorites. --- Cratères météoriques

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The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. From Dust to Life tells the remarkable story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists and philosophers have sought to unravel this mystery down through the centuries, piecing together the clues that enabled them to deduce the solar system's layout, its age, and the most likely way it formed. Drawing on the history of astronomy and the latest findings in astrophysics and the planetary sciences, John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton offer the most up-to-date and authoritative treatment of the subject available. They examine how the evolving universe set the stage for the appearance of our Sun, and how the nebulous cloud of gas and dust that accompanied the young Sun eventually became the planets, comets, moons, and asteroids that exist today. They explore how each of the planets acquired its unique characteristics, why some are rocky and others gaseous, and why one planet in particular--our Earth--provided an almost perfect haven for the emergence of life. From Dust to Life is a must-read for anyone who desires to know more about how the solar system came to be. This enticing book takes readers to the very frontiers of modern research, engaging with the latest controversies and debates. It reveals how ongoing discoveries of far-distant extrasolar planets and planetary systems are transforming our understanding of our own solar system's astonishing history and its possible fate.

Interplanetary dust. --- Life --- Origin. --- Solar system --- Origin. --- 1992 fireball. --- Alexandria. --- Alfred Russel Wallace. --- Apollo missions. --- Big Bang. --- Charles Darwin. --- Chemical and Engineering News. --- Clair C. Patterson. --- Claudius Ptolemy. --- Earth. --- Erasmus Darwin. --- Geological Society of America. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Jupiter. --- Kuiper belt. --- Luna spacecraft. --- Mars. --- Milky Way. --- Moon. --- NASA. --- Pierre-Simon de Laplace. --- Sun. --- archaeologists. --- asteroid belt. --- asteroids. --- astronomers. --- astronomy. --- astrophysics. --- atmosphere. --- carbon. --- chemical elements. --- chondrules. --- coma. --- comets. --- core. --- creation. --- crust. --- crustal recycling. --- dust grains. --- early Earth. --- evolution. --- evolving universe. --- extrasolar planets. --- fine dust. --- gas layers. --- gas. --- giant planets. --- great flood. --- habitable planet. --- human origins. --- human society. --- hydrogen. --- inner solar system. --- interstellar medium. --- interstellar space. --- liquid interior. --- lower atmosphere. --- lunar exploration. --- mantle. --- meteorite. --- meteorites. --- meteors. --- miniature planets. --- natural processes. --- nebular theories. --- nitrogen. --- nothingness. --- oxygen. --- planetary growth. --- planetary science program. --- planetary sciences. --- planetary systems. --- planetesimals. --- planets. --- plate tectonics. --- primitive continents. --- protoplanetary disks. --- rocky material. --- scientific upheaval. --- scientists. --- small rocks. --- solar nebula. --- solar system. --- solar-mass star. --- space agencies. --- space missions. --- space probes. --- space. --- stars. --- supermassive blackhole. --- tails. --- universe. --- upper atmosphere.