Catastrophic Events Caused by Cosmic Objects (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)

Many times all of us could hear from mass media that an asteroid approached and swept past the Earth. Such an asteroid or comet will inevitably strike the planet some day. This volume considers hazards due to collisions with cosmic objects, particularly in light of recent investigations of impacts by the authors. Each chapter written by an expert contains an overview of an aspect and new findings in the field. The main hazardous effects cratering, shock, aerial and seismic waves, fires, ejection of dust and soot, tsunami are described and numerically estimated. Numerical simulations of impacts and impact consequences have received much attention in the book. Fairly small impacting objects 50 -100 m in diameter pose a real threat to humanity and their influence on the atmosphere and ionosphere is emphasized. Especially vulnerable are industrially developed areas with dense population, almost all Europe is one of them.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	2008
Editors:	Vitaly Adushkin • Ivan Nemchinov
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	357
Edition:	2008 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-6451-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Cosmology & the universe
LSN:	1-4020-6451-9
Barcode:	9781402064517

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