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The Big Splat: Or How Our Moon Came to Be

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The Big Splat: Or How Our Moon Came to Be

The Big Splat: Or How Our Moon Came to Be
Audio CDs in MP3 / English: MP3, 96 kb/s (2 ch) | Duration: 09:28:53 | ISBN-10: N/A | ASIN: B0044X13E6 | 2010 | 390 MB
Genre: Science, Astronomy and Cosmology

It takes a certain amount of courage to step beyond one's day-to-day experiments and look at the big picture - and the origin of the Moon is a big picture question par excellence. Perhaps it makes sense that William Hartmann, one of the two scientists who unraveled the Moon's biggest mystery, is not only a scientist but also a part-time artist and science fiction writer. It took someone with an artist's eye and a fiction writer's speculative temperament to see the big picture.
This is a book about that big picture: the origin of the Moon, as interpreted by Hartmann and Alastair Cameron, the second patriarch of The Big Splat. It is also about a doomed planet called Theia, and a familiar one called Earth that used to look vastly different from today's Earth. But, most of all, it is about a long lineage of intellectual voyagers who began exploring the Moon long before Neil Armstrong planted his boot into the lunar dust.

Dana Mackenzie (Author)
Kevin T. Collins (Narrator)

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