A Planet Called Earth Author:George Gamow PLANET CALLED EARTH reflects the latest findings (1965) and theories about the life history of our world from its birth billions of years ago to its death in the far-distant future. The author, a famous scientist and writer, shows how Earth's close relatives-its fellow satellites of the Sun, its own Moon, and the errant meteors-have revealed sig... more »nificant biographical data, and why the future of the Earth is bound up with the life cycle of the Sun. There are close up views of the successive convulsions that shook the evolving body of Earth and shaped its surface features....« less