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Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us, Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's origins, and somed, Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us
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  • Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us
  • Written by author Donald K. Yeomans
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 11/11/2012
  • Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's origins, and somed
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Illustrations vii

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Chapter 1 Earth's Closest Neighbors 1

Chapter 2 The Solar System's Origin: The Classical View 15

Chapter 3 How and Where Do Near-Earth Objects Form? 29

Chapter 4 Near-Earth Objects as the Enablers and Destroyers of Life 47

Chapter 5 Discovering and Tracking Near-Earth Objects 57

Chapter 6 The Nature of Asteroids and Comets 79

Chapter 7 Nature's Natural Resources and the Human Exploration of Our Solar System 100

Chapter 8 Near-Earth Objects as Threats to Earth 109

Chapter 9 Predicting the Likelihood of an Earth Impact 125

Chapter 10 Deflecting an Earth-Threatening Near-Earth Object 140

References 155

Index of Asteroid and Cometary Objects 159

General Index 161


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