Preface. J.L. Remo. Development NEO Research: A Chronological
Outline; J.L. Remo. Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) Program;
E.F. Helin, S.H. Pravdo, D.L. Rabinowitz, and K.J. Lawrence.
The Uncertain Nature of Cometary Motions; D.K. Yeomans.
The EUNEASO Project: A European NEO Search, Follow-up, and Physical
Observation Programme; G. Hahn, S. Mottola, A. Erikson, A.W.
Harris, G. Neukum, A. Maury, R. Savalle, H. Scholl, A. Bijaoui, M.
DiMartino, C. Barbieri, M. Lazzarin, F. Migliorini, P. Pravec, M.
Wolf, L. Sarounova, F.P. Velichko, Yu.N. Krugly, I.N. Belskaya,
and V.G. Shevchenko. The European NEO Search Project within
EUNEASO; A. Maury, R. Savalle, G. Hahn, S. Mottola, and
G. Neukum. Meteoroid Obits: Implications for Near-Earth Object
Search Programs; D. Steel. Overview of Orbits;
B.G. Marsden. Long-period Comets and the Oort Cloud;
P.R. Weissman. Comets as Porous Aggregates of Interstellar
Dust; J. Mayo Greenberg, and J.L. Remo. Radar Reconnaissance of
Near-Earth Objects at the Dawn of the Next Millennium;
S.J. Ostro. Colliding Asteroids from Blind Directions;
S. Isobe and M. Yoshikawa. Correlation of Ground- and
Space-based Bolides; Z. Ceplecha, C. Jacobs, and C.
Zaffery. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Fragment Size Estimates:
How Big Was the Parent Body?; D.A. Crawford. Observations
and Studies of NEOs and the SL-9 Impact at the Purple Mountain
Observatory; H. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Wang, Q. Wang, and
J. Yang. NEO Orbits and Nonlinear Dynamics: A Brief Overview
and Interpretation; J.L. Remo. Fast Resonance Shifting
as a Mechnism of Dynamic Instability Illustrated by Comets and
CHE Trajectories; E. Belbruno.
Gaspra and Ida: Implication of Spacecraft Reconnaissance for
NEO Issues; C.R. Chapman. Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Plume-forming
Collisions on Earth; M.B.E. Boslough and D.A. Crawford.
Atmospheric Screening of Comet and Asteroid Impacts; H.J.
Melosh. Historical Detection of Atmospheric Impacts by Large
Bolides Using Acoustic-Gravity Waves; D.O. Revelle. Analysis
of Satellite Observations of Large Meteoroid Impacts; I.V.
Nemtchinov, C. Jacobs, and E. Tagliaferri. Impact Record in the
Solar System; G. Neukum. Target Earth: Evidence for Large-scale
Impact Events; R.A.F. Grieve. The Cretaceous-Tertiary Impact
Crater and the Cosmic Projectile That Produced It; V.L.
Sharpton and L.E. Marin. Tsunami Produced by the Impacts of Small
Asteroids; J.G. Hills and C.L. Mader. On Kill Curves and
Sampling Protocols: Studying the Relationsships between Impact
and Extinction; P.D. Ward. Cretaceous Habitats Before the
End: The Record from 75,000,000-Year-Old Rocks in the San Juan
Basin of New Mexico; D.L. Wolberg. Paleobiological
Implications of Mass Extinctions; D. Jablonski. Asteroid
Impacts and Mass Extinctions - No Cause for Concern;
G. Keller. Environmental Perturbations Caused by the
Impacts of Asteroids and Comets; O.B. Toon, K. Zahnle,
D. Morrison, R.P. Turco, and C. Covey. A Unified Theory of
Impact Crises and Mass Extinctions: Quantitative Tests;
M.R. Rampino, B.M. Haggerty, T.C. Pagano.
NEO Mission Dynamics and Advanced Space Propulsion;
P.M. Sforza and J.L. Remo. High-Performance Ultra-light
Nuclear Rockets for Near-Earth Objects Interaction Missions;
J. Powell, G. Maise, H. Ludwig, and M. Todosow. Near-Earth
Resources; R. Gertsch, J.L. Remo, and L.S. Gertsch.
Mining Near-Earth Resources; R. Gertsch, L.S. Gertsch,
and J.L. Remo. Several Aspects of Space Protection of the
Earth: Conceptual Development; V.A. Simonenko. Optimal
Detection of Near-Earth Object Threats; G.H. Stokes and
D.F. Kostishack. A Near-Earth Object Hazard Index; R.P.
Binzel. Momentum Coupling to NEOs; B.P. Shafer, M.D.
Garcia, R.A. Managan, and J.L. Remo, C.E. Rosenkilde, R.J.
Scammon, C.M. Snell, and R.F. Stellingwerf. Ice Issues,
Porosity, and Snow Experiments for Dynamic NEO and Comet
Modeling; M.D. Furnish and J.L. Remo. Magnetospheric
Effects as a New Aspect of the Asteroid Impact Problem:
Necessity and Possibilities of Laboratory Simulation Experiments;
Y P. Zakharov, S.A. Nikitin, A.G. Ponomarenko, and S.
Minami. Laboratoy Planetary Physics; P. Hammerling and J.L. Remo.
A Proposal to the United Nations Regarding the International
Discovery Programs of Near-Earth Asteroids; T. Gehrels.
International Efforts toward the Spaceguard System; A. Carusi.
Space Debris Issue at the United Nations; P. Lala.
United Nations Contributions to the Worldwide Development of Astronomy;
H.J. Haubold. Index of Contributors.
1997, 632 pp., illustrated ISBN 1-57331-040-9 (cloth);
ISBN 1-57331-041-7 (paper)
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