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Author |
: Patrick Michel |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 946 |
Release |
: 2015-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816532186 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816532184 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Asteroids IV by : Patrick Michel
Over the past decade, asteroids have come to the forefront of planetary science. Scientists across broad disciplines are increasingly recognizing that understanding asteroids is essential to discerning the basic processes of planetary formation, including how their current distribution bespeaks our solar system’s cataclysmic past. For explorers, the nearest asteroids beckon as the most accessible milestones in interplanetary space, offering spaceflight destinations easier to reach than the lunar surface. For futurists, the prospects of asteroids as commercial resources tantalize as a twenty-first-century gold rush, albeit with far greater challenges than faced by nineteenth-century pioneers. For humanity, it is the realization that asteroids matter. It is not a question of if—but when—the next major impact will occur. While the disaster probabilities are thankfully small, fully cataloging and characterizing the potentially hazardous asteroid population remains unfinished business. Asteroids IV sets the latest scientific foundation upon which all these topics and more will be built upon for the future. Nearly 150 international authorities through more than 40 chapters convey the definitive state of the field by detailing our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites. Most importantly, this volume outlines the outstanding questions that will focus and drive researchers and students of all ages toward new advances in the coming decade and beyond.
Author |
: Patrick Michel |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 946 |
Release |
: 2015-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816532131 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816532133 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Asteroids IV by : Patrick Michel
"More than forty chapters detail our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites"--Provided by publisher.
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: William Wallace Payne |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 776 |
Release |
: 1915 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:16432463 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Popular Astronomy by : William Wallace Payne
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Total Pages |
: 766 |
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: 1915 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101075380244 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Popular Astronomy by :
Author |
: Tom Gehrels |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 1340 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816515050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816515059 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids by : Tom Gehrels
In 1993, the U.S. Department of Defense declassified information dealing with frequent explosions in the upper atmosphere caused by meteoric impact. It is estimated that impacts have occurred of a magnitude equivalent to the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima. Not all such space voyagers meet their end in the atmosphere, however; huge craters attest to the bombardment of earth over millions of years, and a major impact may have resulted in the extinction of dinosaurs. An impact in Siberia near the beginning of this century proves that such events are not confined to geologic time. Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids marks a significant step in the attempt to come to grips with the threats posed by such phenomena. It brings together more than one hundred scientists from around the world, who draw on observational and theoretical research to focus on the technical problems related to all aspects of dealing with these hazards: searching for and identifying hazardous comets and asteroids; describing their statistics and characteristics; intercepting and altering the orbits of dangerous objects; and applying existent technologies—rocket boosters, rendezvous and soft-landing techniques, instrumentation—to such missions. The book considers defensive options for diverting or disrupting an approaching body, including solar sails, kinetic-energy impacts, nuclear explosives, robotic mass drivers, and various propulsion systems. A cataclysmic impact posing a threat to life on Earth is a possibility that tomorrow's technology is capable of averting. This book examines in depth the reality of the threat and proposes practical measures that can be initiated now should we ever need to deal with it.
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Total Pages |
: 100 |
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: 1902 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:089798208 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Educational Courses in Study and Reading by :
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Total Pages |
: 714 |
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: 1880 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106016819325 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Progress of Astronomy by :
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: Janice L. Bishop |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 655 |
Release |
: 2019-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107186200 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110718620X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Remote Compositional Analysis by : Janice L. Bishop
Comprehensive overview of the spectroscopic, mineralogical, and geochemical techniques used in planetary remote sensing.
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Total Pages |
: 906 |
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: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB11548592 |
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: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis House documents by :
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: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents |
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Total Pages |
: 898 |
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: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044041851742 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents