Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 414 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511525049
Content:
It is known that large asteroids and comets can collide with the Earth with severe consequences. Although the chances of a collision in a person's lifetime are small, collisions are a random process and could occur at any time. This book, which was first published in 2004, collects the latest thoughts and ideas of scientists concerned with mitigating the threat of hazardous asteroids and comets. It reviews knowledge of the population of potential colliders, including their numbers, locations, orbits, and how warning times might be improved. The structural properties and composition of their interiors and surfaces are reviewed, and their orbital response to the application of pulses of energy is discussed. Difficulties of operating in space near, or on the surface of, very low mass objects are examined. The book concludes with a discussion of the problems faced in communicating the nature of the impact hazard to the public
Content:
1. Recent progress in interpreting the nature of the near-Earth object population / William F. Bottke, Jr., Alessandro Morbidelli and Robert Jedicke -- 2. Earth impactors : orbital characteristics and warning times / Steven R. Chesley and Timothy B. Spahr -- 3. The role of radar in predicting and preventing asteroid and comet collisions with Earth / Steven J. Ostro and Jon D. Giorgini -- 4. Interior structures for asteroids and cometary nuclei / Erik Asphaug -- 5. What we know and don't know about surfaces of potentially hazardous small bodies / Clark R. Chapman -- 6. About deflecting asteroids and comets / Keith A. Holsapple -- 7. Scientific requirements for understanding the near-Earth asteroid population / Alan W. Harris -- 8. Physical properties of comets and asteroids inferred from fireball observations / Mario Di Martino and Alberto Cellino -- 9. Mitigation technologies and their requirements / Christian Gritzner and Ralph Kahle -- 10. Peering inside near-Earth objects with radio tomography / W. Kofman and A. Safaeinili -- 11. Seismological investigation of asteroid and comet interiors / James D. Walker and Walter F. Huebner -- 12. Lander and penetrator science for near-Earth object mitigation studies / A.J. Ball, P. Lognonne, K. Seiferlin, M. Patzold and T. Spohn -- 13. Optimal interception and deflection of Earth-approaching asteroids using low-thrust electric propulsion / Bruce A. Conway -- 14. Close proximity operations at small bodies : orbiting, hovering, and hopping / Daniel J. Scheeres -- 15. Mission operations in low-gravity regolith and dust / Derek Sears, Melissa Franzen, Shauntae Moore, Shawn Nichols, Mikhail Kareev and Paul Benoit -- 16. Impacts and the public : communicating the nature of the impact hazard / Richard P. Binzel -- 17. Towards a national program to remove the threat of hazardous NEOs / Michael J.S. Belton
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521827645
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521173322
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521827645
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511525049
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