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Handbook of Cosmic Hazards and Planetary Defense (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Handbook of Cosmic Hazards and Planetary Defense (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Covers in a comprehensive fashion all aspects of cosmic hazards and
possible strategies for contending with these threats through a
comprehensive planetary defense strategy. This handbook brings
together in a single reference work a rich blend of information
about the various types of cosmic threats that are posed to human
civilization by asteroids, comets, bolides, meteors, solar flares
and coronal mass ejections, cosmic radiation and other types of
threats that are only recently beginning to be understood and
studied, such as investigation of the "cracks" in the protective
shield provided by the Van Allen belts and the geomagnetosphere, of
matter-antimatter collisions, orbital debris and radiological or
biological contamination. Some areas that are addressed involve
areas about which there is a good deal of information that has been
collected for many decades by multiple space missions run by many
different space agencies, observatories and scientific researchers.
Other areas involving research and studies that have only recently
gotten underway are discussed by some of the world's foremost
experts in each of these areas, who provide up-to-date and
scientifically verifiable information. Although much of the work in
these various areas have been conducted by space agencies, an
expanding range of work is also being carried out by observatories,
by universities and other research centers, and even by private
foundations and professional organizations. The purpose of this
work is thus several-fold: to include the latest information and
most systematic research from around the world in a single
reference work; to note where there are significant gaps in
knowledge where new research, spacecraft, observatories, or other
initiatives are needed to fill in critical missing information; and
to give the best possible information about preventative actions
that might be taken against cosmic threats and identify various
alternative strategies that are now under way or planned to cope
with these various threats.
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