Rocks from Space

Author: O. Richard Norton

Paperback: 444 pages

This popular nontechnical introduction to meteorites, asteroids, comets, and impact craters is now even better! With more than 50 new photographs and illustrations, updated and revised text, and fun cosmic humor, Rocks from Space, Second Edition, probes the latest astronomical discoveries. Watch Sojourner bump its way across Mars. Sneak another look at Comet Hale-Bopp streaking through the dark sky. View photos of the impact scar – twice the size of Earth – where Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. And learn the latest on meteorite chemistry and classification.