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A Note on the Author
MICHAEL D. LEMONICK spent nearly twenty-one years as a writer at Time, where he wrote more than fifty cover stories about science, medicine, and the environment. Since 2008, he has been senior writer at Climate Central, a nonprofit, non-partisan science and communications organization. He continues to write about space and astronomy as a freelancer, mostly for Time, but also for National Geographic, Discover, and other publications. Lemonick is the author of four previous popular books on astronomy. His second, Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe, won the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award in 1999. He has also won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Westinghouse Science Journalism Award twice, along with the Overseas Press Club’s award for international environmental reporting. He has taught about science and writing at Princeton since 1998, and has also taught at New York University, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia.
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Mirror Earth : the search for our planet’s twin /
Michael D. Lemonick.—1st U.S. ed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Extrasolar planets. 2. Earth. 3. Planetology. I. Title.
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