"More than forty chapters detail our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites"--Provided by publisher.
The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective relevant to many fields of planetary science, as well as cosmochemistry, planetary astronomy, astrobiology, geology and space engineering.
This volume brings together the latest information obtained by spacecraft combined with astronomical observations and theoretical modeling, to present our best current understanding of asteroids and the clues they reveal for the origin an,d ...
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... Asteroids IV, Michel P., Demeo F. E., and Bottke W. F., editors, pp. 43–64, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Rivkin A. S., Campins H., Emery J. P., et al. (2015) Astronomical observations of volatiles on asteroids. In Asteroids IV ...
Planetary defense cannot be achieved with technology alone; the chapters in this volume highlight the issues that arise when space science and technology intersect with political science.
... asteroids in the Main Belt. Icarus, 198, 77. Nesvorný, D., Brož, M., & Carruba, V. (2015) Identification and dynamical properties of asteroid families. In P. Michel, F. DeMeo, & W. F. Bottke (eds.), Asteroids IV. Tucson: University of ...
... Asteroid family physical properties. In Asteroids IV, ed. W. F. Bottke Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, and R. P. Binzel. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 323–340. Masset, F. and Snellgrove, M. 2001. Reversing type II migration ...
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This volume is a compilation of the research presented at the International Asteroid Day workshop which was celebrated at Barcelona on June 30th, 2015.