Quest for Comets

With their bright tails and otherworldly beauty, comets have fascinated mankind for centuries. They have heralded doom, they may have helped create life on Earth, and they may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. In The Quest for Comets, one of the discoverers of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 writes an exhilarating, eloquent history of comet hunting and hunters, comet collisions, and more.