This volume of proceedings contains research and review papers concerning the dynamics of asteroids and comets and especially their interactions with the Earth as signified by geological and historical records. Remembering what may have happened to the dinosaurs, but being careful to avoid creating irrational scares, the papers attempt to improve our knowledge of dynamics of the small objects of the Solar System and to assess in particular their effects on the Earth environment and the evolution of life. This book will be an up-to-date source of information to astronomers and dynamicists interested in the dynamics of small bodies of the Solar system, as well as to geologists and paleobiologists interested in the effects on the Earth of extraterrestrial bombardment by asteroids and comets.
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A view of earth from space portrays a tranquil oasis - clouds drift peacefully over blue oceans as the seasons come and go, while underneath tectonic plates spread at mid-ocean ridges and descend under gradually rising mountain ranges. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
equal step method, solar infall, theoretical radiants, complex asteroids, linear secular resonances, extinction rate peaks, galactic periodicity, geocentric radiants, natural phenomena between, collision winter, frequency map analysis, asteroidal population, comet flux, specific craters, cratering data, global stochasticity, asteroidal motion, meteor records, unseasonal snow, galactic tide, meteoroid stream, cloud enhancement, individual meteors, young comets, extinction peaks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Monte Carlo, Western Australia, Arizona Press, Meteor Crater, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Little Ice Age, New York, Special Paper, Carolyn Shoemaker, Connolly Basin, Earaheedy Group, New Mexico, Pergamon Press, Reports of Planetary Geology Program, South Australia, Barringer Crater, Dynasty Annals, Gilbert Award, Late Eocene, May Arietids, United States, Upper Pleistocene, Yelma Formation, Archiwum Mechaniki Stosowanej, Gene Shoemaker New!
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A view of earth from space portrays a tranquil oasis - clouds drift peacefully over blue oceans as the seasons come and go, while underneath tectonic plates spread at mid-ocean ridges and descend under gradually rising mountain ranges. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
equal step method, solar infall, theoretical radiants, complex asteroids, linear secular resonances, extinction rate peaks, galactic periodicity, geocentric radiants, natural phenomena between, collision winter, frequency map analysis, asteroidal population, comet flux, specific craters, cratering data, global stochasticity, asteroidal motion, meteor records, unseasonal snow, galactic tide, meteoroid stream, cloud enhancement, individual meteors, young comets, extinction peaks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Monte Carlo, Western Australia, Arizona Press, Meteor Crater, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Little Ice Age, New York, Special Paper, Carolyn Shoemaker, Connolly Basin, Earaheedy Group, New Mexico, Pergamon Press, Reports of Planetary Geology Program, South Australia, Barringer Crater, Dynasty Annals, Gilbert Award, Late Eocene, May Arietids, United States, Upper Pleistocene, Yelma Formation, Archiwum Mechaniki Stosowanej, Gene Shoemaker New!
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- The Solar System (3 Vol Set) (Magill's Choice) by Roger Smith on 9 pages
- The Galaxy and the Solar System (Space Science Series) by Roman Smoluchowski on 8 pages
- The Solar System (with AceAstronomy™, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card) by Michael A. Seeds on 6 pages
- The Origin of Comets by M. E. Bailey on page 74, page 87 (1), and page 87 (2)
- Global Events and Event Stratigraphy: in the Phanerozoic by Otto H. Walliser on page 50, and page 60
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