{"product_id":"9781614520078","title":"Planet Killers: A Spine-Tingling Look at Near-Earth Objects, Mass Extinctions, and the Controversial Science of Planetary Defense","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 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 here's the kicker: it's 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTad 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR \"PLANET KILLERS\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Planet Killers' is a riveting and hair-raising a story about the race to stop a doomsday asteroid from hitting the earth. It is the kind of story that everyone should read—while we still can!\" —David Grann, author of the bestseller \"The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Byliner Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148392153328,"sku":"9781614520078","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614520078_p0.jpg?v=1763849621","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614520078","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}