Comments on: Book review – Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System

By: Book review – Fire & Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:07:05 +0000

[…] could be more awe-inspiring than volcanoes? How about volcanoes in space? Having previously raved about asteroids, geologist and cosmochemist Natalie Starkey returns to Bloomsbury Sigma for her second book. Here, […]

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By: Book review – Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:55:49 +0000

[…] The bottom-up explanation has shown that life’s basic building blocks such as amino acids exist in space, but how do we go from there to larger functional […]

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By: Book review – Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and other Planets | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:23:49 +0000

[…] With water present in the universe, how did Earth acquire its oceans? After all, “There is a wild card here, which surely had an impact” (p. 18). We have good evidence that our proto-Earth, called Tellus by some, was hit by a small planetoid, Theia, with the resulting debris forming our current Earth-Moon system. This event would likely have obliterated what early oceans we had, if any. Various authors have proposed that certain meteorites (carbonaceous chondrites) or comets might have subsequently been water’s cosmic delivery vehicle. […]

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By: Book review – The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:44:03 +0000

[…] resources first, so we mine and drill in ever more extreme environments, including plans to mine asteroids and the deep sea. Bonus points for Pitron for mentioning the underappreciated concept of energy […]

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By: Book review – The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 May 2019 08:57:30 +0000

[…] The range of topics covered by Prothero is diverse, and seemingly not organised in any fashion. But start reading through the book, and connections are made across chapters. Some of his chapters tie in with Dartnell’s book Origins: How The Earth Made Us that I just reviewed, chronicling the discovery of economically important deposits of coal, tin or iron and how these were formed. Others will take the readers off the planet as he tackles meteorites and moon rocks. Interestingly, Prothero thinks Earth’s water has been present since the beginning, discounting the mechanism of delivery-by-comet, something which Starkey deemed a much more likely possibility (see my review of Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System). […]

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