Kosmos View

With patches put together from organic sound-sources that are blowed, bowed, plucked or stroked (+ a few synths). Then cuddled with, time-stretched, granulated and processed into a sumptuous universe.

Grounded in historical studies of asteroids from the nineteenth century, Asteroids is a fully up-to-date view of these remarkable objects. Without resorting to any technical diagrams or mathematics, Clifford J. Cunningham shows that asteroids are not just rocks in space, but key to understanding the life and death on Earth of both animals and humans. From space missions to the asteroids' starring role in literature and film, Cunningham precisely and entertainingly looks at the place asteroids have in our solar system and how they affect our daily lives.

This book may serve to present the modern view of the universe to a large number of readers whose over-full professional commit­ ments leave them no time for the study of larger monographs … Such a book should not be too compendious. Accordingly, the author has been at pains to allow the leading ideas of the various domains of astronomical investigation to stand out plainly in their scientific and historical settings; the introductory chapters of the three parts of the book.