A decade in the making, the first volume of "Recovering the Lost World" reconstructs for the reader the celestial drama that resulted in the civilizations of our modern world: a sky dominated by Saturn and other planets, a southern sky obscured by equatorial rings. The text next discusses well-established prehistory: the Chicxulub crater of 60 million years ago, the Tunguska explosion of 1908, the impact at the start of the Younger Dryas, which caused...
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