INCOMING! OR: WHY WE SHOULD LEARN TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE METEORITE
Book ID/图书代码： 13000510B39900
English Summary/英文概要： An introduction to the science and history of the falling sky that challenges the orthodox view that meteorite strikes are always bad news for life on Earth.
Astonishing new research suggests that 470 million years ago, a stupendous collision in the Asteroid Belt (whose debris is still falling today) bombarded the Earth with meteorites of all sizes. A revolutionary idea is emerging that the resulting ecological disturbance may have been responsible for the single greatest increase in biological diversity since the origin of complex life – the hitherto unexplained Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event.
Introducing these fresh discoveries to a wider public for the first time, Ted Nield challenges the orthodox view that meteorite strikes are always bad news for life on Earth. He argues that one of the most widely known scientific theories – that dinosaurs were wiped out by a strike 65 million years ago – isn’t the whole picture, and that the causes of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (of which the dinosaurs’ demise was a part) were much more varied and complex.
Meteorites have been the stuff of legend throughout human history, interpreted as omens of doom or objects of power. But only in the eighteenth century, when the study of falling space debris became a science, were meteorites used to unlock the mysteries of our Universe. Incoming! traces the history of meteorites from the first recorded strike to the video recordings made routinely today, showing how our interpretations have varied according to the age in which they fell, and how meteorite impacts were given fresh urgency with the advent of the atom bomb.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 传统观点认为流星划过天际总会给地球生物带来厄运，现在对于流星降落历史和科学的介绍将对这一传统看法发起挑战。 一项令人惊讶的新研究暗示出在4.7亿年前，小行星带发生了一场规模宏大的撞击，致使大小各异的陨石降落至地球，与地球发生撞击，甚至在今天其仍有碎片落到地球上。然后，一个革新的观点产生了，它认为在复杂生命产生之初—即迄今为止无法解释的伟大的奥陶系生物多样性事件--生物多样性加剧是生态领域的大混乱的结果。
泰德•尼尔德首次向公众介绍这些新鲜的看法，他向认为流星划过天际总会给地球生物带来厄运的正统观点发起挑战。他认为一个广为人知的科学理论---恐龙是由于6500万年前的一次流星撞击地球而灭绝的---并非百分百正确。导致地球生物大灭绝（其中也包括恐龙消失）的原因是极其复杂的。
在人类历史中，流星一直被认为是神秘莫测的，被阐释成厄运的征兆和力量的象征。但仅在18世纪，当对宇宙空间陨落的陨石碎片的研究成为一门科学时，流星便成为人类探索和解释宇宙奥秘的对象。《降临吧！》一书从第一次对流星有确切的记录着手一直研究到当前记录流星的常规录像，追溯陨石的历史，展现我们对于陨石的解释和理解是怎样变化着的以及它们给原子弹的诞生带来过怎样启发性的影响。(兼职翻译-XMM)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 泰德•尼尔德拥有地质学博士学位，作为月刊杂志《地质科学家》的一名编辑在伦敦地质学会工作。同时，他还是英国科学作家协会的主席和地质学会及陨石协会的成员之一，2008年担任了联合国国际地球年的亲善大使，。现其居住于伦敦。 Ted Nield holds a doctorate in geology and works for the Geological Society of London as editor of the monthly magazine Geoscientist. He was chair of the Association of British Science Writers and was a goodwill ambassador for the UN International Year of Planet Earth in 2008. He is a fellow of the Geological Society and a member of the Meteoritical Society. He lives in London.
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