About 120,000 pounds of space dust falls to Earth every day. All of this dust comes from asteroids! Asteroids are chunks of rock and metal that orbit around the sun, but some venture near Earth from outside the solar system. Through detailed photos and fact-filled graphics, this title introduces readers to the phenomenon of asteroids.
"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 ...
Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death -- but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered and studied.
Near - Earth Asteroid Search Programs Grant H. Stokes and Jenifer B. Evans Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... HISTORICAL SEARCH METHODS Ceres , the first asteroid discovered , was found in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi , who was in the ...
Presented in this book is a list of carefully chosen abstracts and citations of relevant literature about asteroids and the research into them.
This book concentrates on some of the odd aspects of comets and asteroids.
... settings in terms of image manipulation only to the JPEG version. What can be achieved is next illustrated by the work of two amateur astronomers, Michael Clarke and Maurice Gavin (the latter better known for his spectroscopy work).
Thomas H. Burbine ... 1970; Consolmagno and Drake, 1977) iron 4.6 M-type (Cloutis et al., 1990; Shepard et al., 2010, 2011, ... Shepard et al., 2010) EL 0.7 M-type (Gaffey and McCord, 1978; Shepard et al., 2010) CV 0.7 K-type (Bell, ...
Introduces the bodies in space also known as planetoids, minor planets, or when they stray from their paths, meteoroids.
This book investigates asteroids' prospective energy and material resources. It is a collection of topics related to asteroid exploration, and utilization.
The asteroids are a series of small, heavenly bodies whose orbits fall mainly between those of Mars and Jupiter.