Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards - Proceedings of the 2015 Barcelona Asteroid Day (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This volume is a compilation of the research presented at the International Asteroid Day workshop which was celebrated at Barcelona on June 30th, 2015. The proceedings discuss the beginning of a new era in the study and exploration of the solar system's minor bodies. International Asteroid Day commemorates the Tunguska event of June 30th, 1908. The workshop's goal was to promote the importance of dealing proactively with impact hazards from space. Multidisciplinary experts contributed to this discussion by describing the nature of comets and asteroids along with their offspring, meteoroids. New missions to return material samples of asteroids back to Earth such as Osiris-REx and Hayabusa 2, as well as projects like AIM and DART which will test impact deflection techniques for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids encounters were also covered. The proceedings include both an outreach level to popularize impact hazards and a scientific character which covers the latest knowledge on these topics, as well as offering proposals of promising new techniques that will help gain new insights of the properties of these challenging bodies by studying meteoroids and meteorites. Asteroids, comets, meteoroids and meteorites are introduced with descriptions of their nature, origin, and solar system pathways.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 46
Release date:	December 2016
First published:	2017
Editors:	Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez • Maria Gritsevich • Herbert Palme
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-46178-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Solar system > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Astrophysics Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Mineralogy > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-46178-8
Barcode:	9783319461786

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