This book presents the most recent research on the development of a reliable defense against objects that can potentially collide with the Earth. Large asteroids and comets can collide with the Earth causing severe consequences, and collisions are a random process that can occur at any time. To reduce the threat, it is necessary to understand these potentially hazardous objects.
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"The book is an excellent compendium of current knowledge of near-Earth objects." EOS-Transactions, AGU
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This book presents the most recent thinking on the development of a reliable defence against objects that could potentially collide with the Earth. Large asteroids and comets can collide with the Earth with severe consequences and collisions are a random process that could occur at any time. To reduce the threat, it is necessary to understand the orbital motions of potentially hazardous objects, probe their structural and compositional nature to a high level of detail, and measure how they respond to the application of large amounts of energy or momentum.
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Over the last several decades, evidence has steadily mounted that asteroids and comets have impacted the Earth over solar system history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radar astrometry, hazardous comets, radio reflection tomography, discovery apparition, isotropic comets, interceptor spacecraft, close proximity dynamics, radio tomography, rubble pile asteroids, deflecting impulse, local escape speed, active seismic experiment, impact hazard scale, survey simulator, ecliptic comets, propulsion hardware, albedo distribution, hyperbolic excess velocity, mitigation system, periapsis passage, close proximity operations, impacting population, binary asteroids, comet population, primitive asteroids Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Arizona Press, Cambridge University Press, United States, Torino Scale, Space Sci, Lunar Planet, New York, Space Res, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Deep Space, European Space Agency, Spaceguard Survey, Dresden University of Technology, Government Printing Office, International Conference, Los Alamos, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Honeybee Robotics, Mars Microprobes, Preliminary Science Report, Working Group, Alan Harris, Don Quijote, European Fireball Network New!
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Over the last several decades, evidence has steadily mounted that asteroids and comets have impacted the Earth over solar system history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radar astrometry, hazardous comets, radio reflection tomography, discovery apparition, isotropic comets, interceptor spacecraft, close proximity dynamics, radio tomography, rubble pile asteroids, deflecting impulse, local escape speed, active seismic experiment, impact hazard scale, survey simulator, ecliptic comets, propulsion hardware, albedo distribution, hyperbolic excess velocity, mitigation system, periapsis passage, close proximity operations, impacting population, binary asteroids, comet population, primitive asteroids Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Arizona Press, Cambridge University Press, United States, Torino Scale, Space Sci, Lunar Planet, New York, Space Res, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Deep Space, European Space Agency, Spaceguard Survey, Dresden University of Technology, Government Printing Office, International Conference, Los Alamos, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Honeybee Robotics, Mars Microprobes, Preliminary Science Report, Working Group, Alan Harris, Don Quijote, European Fireball Network New!
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- The Solar System (3 Vol Set) (Magill's Choice) by Roger Smith on 5 pages
- The Solar System (with AceAstronomy™, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card) by Michael A. Seeds in Front Matter, and page 410
- Cosmic Catastrophes by Clark R. Chapman on page 366, and page 388
- Dielectric Materials and Applications by Arthur R. Von Hippel on page 210, and page 233
- Natural Hazards by Edward Bryant on page 388
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- Modern Meteor Science: An Interdisciplinary View by Robert Hawkes on page 5
- Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Bill McGuire in Back Matter
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