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The house and the unread message are destroyed in a futile effort at quarantine. What would become known as "The Blue Death" enters history as a disaster comparable with the Black Death of the Middle Ages, both being part of Cenbe's symphonia (as well as the Great Plague of London). Eventually humanity manages to develop a cure and an ...
Deception Point is a 2001 mystery-thriller novel by American author Dan Brown. [1] It is Brown's third novel. It was published by Simon & Schuster. [2]The novel follows White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton's involvement in corroborating NASA's discovery of a meteorite that supposedly contains proof of extraterrestrial life, resembling the ALH84001 case.
The Dynamics of an Asteroid is a fictional book by Professor James Moriarty, the implacable foe of Sherlock Holmes. The only mention of it in Arthur Conan Doyle 's original Holmes stories is in The Valley of Fear (written in 1914, but set in 1888) when Holmes says of Moriarty: [ 1 ]
The Van Allen belt catches on fire. Poem 1961 War "Your Attention Please" Peter Porter: Written in the style of a radio broadcast warning of an impending nuclear attack Novel 1961 Eco The Wind from Nowhere: J. G. Ballard: Ballard's first published novel. The world is destroyed by increasingly powerful winds. Film 1962 War La jetée [25] Chris ...
[100] [101] The Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to have caused over $30 million in damage. [102] [103] It is the largest recorded object to have encountered the Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event. [104] [105] The meteor is estimated to have an initial diameter of 17–20 metres and a mass of roughly 10,000 tonnes. On 16 October 2013, a team ...
The 60-tonne, 2.7 m-long (8.9 ft) Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known intact meteorite.[1]A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.
Frederic Edwin Church, The Meteor of 1860. In 2010, it was determined to be an Earth-grazing meteor procession. [1] An Earth-grazing fireball (or Earth grazer) [2] is a fireball, a very bright meteor that enters Earth’s atmosphere and leaves again. Some fragments may impact Earth as meteorites, if
Although the meteorite had crashed through the Hodges home and hit Mrs. Hodges, the owner of the house, Birdie Guy, declared ownership. [8] After a year-long legal battle, [7] Mrs. Guy and the Hodgeses agreed on a $500 settlement and Mrs. Hodges was able to keep the meteorite. [8] Ann Hodges had immense, although short-term, attention for the ...