Books:
- Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets: Wiley, New York, 1995.
- Eclipse: Headline, London, 1999 (hardcover); 2001 (revised softcover).
- Marking Time: Wiley, New York, 2000.
- Target Earth: Reader’s Digest, New York, 2000; Time-Life, London, 2001.
- Eclipse: Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2002 (revised American edition with five additional chapters).
Some recent publications:
- Centaurs as a hazard to civilization (with Bill Napier, David Asher and Mark Bailey)
- Implications of the centaurs, Neptune-crossers, and Edgeworth-Kuiper belt for terrestrial catastrophism (Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinctions conference)
- Significance of Large Neptune-Crossing Objects for Terrestrial Catastrophism (Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2014)
- NASA’s Spaceward Bound Program: Expeditions in Australia and New Zealand
- A Large Optical Arecibo for NEO Discovery (Planetary Defense Conference, 2013)
- Space Reconnaissance: Scanning the Sky with an Optical Arecibo
- A hypothesis for Mercury’s high metal content
- Space Debris: Quantifying and Mitigating the Impact Hazard
- Encountering the Teeth of the Dragon
- Draconid meteor storms
- An r-Strategy Architecture for the Robotic Exploration of Mars
- Electromagnetic perturbations of the orbits of asteroids
- Terrestrial impact rates for the known population of Earth-crossing asteroids
- The Berlin Declaration on the cosmic impact hazard
- The Leonid meteors: compositions and consequences
- Distributions and moments of asteroid and comet impact speeds upon the Earth and Mars
- Collisions in the solar system – I. Impacts of the Apollo-Amor-Aten asteroids upon the terrestrial planets
- Discovery of interstellar dust entering the Earth’s atmosphere
- Impacts and the Public: Communicating the Nature of the Impact Hazard
- The proper length of a calendar year
A few of my TV and radio appearances:
- Venus across the Sun – BBC Radio 4
- The Transit of Venus – ABC Radio National
- Science in Cook’s Time – Radio New Zealand National
A few of my articles available online:
- Tunguska at 100 – Nature
- What is the most important invention of the past two thousand years? – The Edge
The Guardian (London)
- To seek, to find and not to yield: The Columbia Shuttle Disaster
- Strife on Mars
- Why shouldn’t aliens look like us?
- Looking for slime on Mars
- Easter is the thief of time
- Rock Shock
- The day the sky fell in
- Mission to Mars
- Disarming robots
- Chasing a comet’s tail
- Rocks on your head
- Knight in shining armour
- Dark days of war
- As cool as the cosmos
- It came out of the sky
- The dog star’s bone?
- In search of stardust memories
- The Y2k bug in all our calendars
- A last wave goodbye
- Please keep that planet clean
- Slow-down in space
- Will Pluto get the push?
- Astronauts can jump
- A kick in the cosmos
- Getting your name in lights