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Planet Killers: A spine-tingling look at near-Earth objects mass extinctions and the controversial science of planetary defense. By: Tad Friend

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Byliner Inc., June 2011

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Its the stuff of summertime popcorn films: rogue asteroids threatening the obliteration of Earth and plucky scientists and astronauts scrambling for ways to destroy or deflect them. Now heres the kicker: its all real. Welcome to the fascinating controversial and sobering science of planetary defense where NASA tracks thousands of the near-Earth objects hurtling toward us (any one of which could annihilate a city or continent) and a cadre of obsessed men and women rush to send gravity tractors and kinetic impactors into space in the hopes of saving humankind from mass extinction. "'Planet Killers' is a riveting and hair-raising story about the race to stop a doomsday asteroid from hitting the earth. It is the kind of story that everyone should readwhile we still can!" David Grann. Tad Friend is the author of the memoir 'Cheerful Money: Me My Family and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor.' Since 1998 he has been a staff writer at The New Yorker where he writes the magazine's "Letter from California." He is married to Amanda Hesser the co-founder of Food52.com; they live in Brooklyn with their twins Walker and Addie.
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