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Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and Their Role in Earth History - Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Dynic Astropark 'Ten-Kyu-Kan', August 14-18, 1997 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998)
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Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and Their Role in Earth History - Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Dynic Astropark 'Ten-Kyu-Kan', August 14-18, 1997 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998)
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The last decade of this century has seen a renewed interest in the
dynamics and physics of the small bodies of the Solar System,
Asteroids, Comets and Meteors. New observational evidences such as
the discovery of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, refined numerical tools
such as the symplectic integrators, analytical tools such as
semi-numerical perturbation algorithms and in general a better
understanding of the dynamics of Hamiltonian systems, all these
factors have converged to make possible and worthwhile the study,
over very long time spans, of these "minor" objects. Also the
public, the media and even some political assell}blies have become
aware that these "minor" objects of our planetary environnement
could become deadly weapons. Apparently they did have a role in
Earth history and a role more ominous than "predicting" defeat (or
victory, why not?) to batches of credulous rulers. Remembering what
may have happened to the dinosaurs but keeping all the discretion
necessary to avoid creating irrational scares, it may not be unwise
or irrelevant to improve our knowledge of the physics and dynamics
of these objects and to study in particular their interactions with
our planet.
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