Download or read book Rain Of Iron And Ice written by John S. Lewis and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1997-04-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain of Iron and Ice shows us the unmistakable evidence—from spaceprobe flybys of the planets to the scars on our own Earth—of cataclysmic comet and asteroid impacts. By comparing what we know about the earth's geology and paleontology with the ages of the other planets and moons in our solar system, Lewis makes the strongest case yet for sudden, dramatic extinctions and assesses the risks to planet Earth.