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This volume of proceedings contains research and review papers concerning the dynamics of asteroids and comets and especially their interactions with the Earth as signified by geological and historical records. Remembering what may have happened to the dinosaurs, but being careful to avoid creating irrational scares, the papers attempt to improve our knowledge of dynamics of the small objects of the Solar System and to assess in particular their effects on the Earth environment and the evolution of life.

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Author:   Shin Yabushita ,  Jacques Henrard
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Reprinted from CELESTIAL MECHANICS AND DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY, 69:1-2, 1998
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.330kg
ISBN:  

9780792352129

ISBN 10:   0792352122
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   31 October 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Eugene Shoemaker and the Impact Paradigm in Earth and Planetary Science.- Eugene Shoemaker — Bibliography of Impact Papers.- Shoemaker Impact Structure in Western Australia.- A Statistical Test of Correlations and Periodicities in the Geological Records.- The Galactic Theory of Mass Extinctions: an Update.- NEOs and Impacts: the Galactic Connection.- Oort Cloud Comet Perihelion Asymmetries: Galactic Tide, Shower or Observational Bias?.- Monte-Carlo Simulations of Comet Capture from the Oort Cloud.- The Dynamical Evolution of the Atens.- An Asteroid in a Earth-like Orbit.- Secular Dynamics of Asteroids in the Inner Solar System.- Towards a Dynamical History of ‘Proto-Encke’.- On the Lack of Asteroids in the Hecuba Gap.- The Effect of the Great Inequality on the Hecuba Gap.- Meteor Fallings and other Natural Phenomena between 1500–1750.- Meteor Showers Associated with the Taurid Complex Asteroids.- On the Stochasticity of the Asteroid Belt.- Dust Cloud Enhancement around Small Celestial Bodies due to Meteor Stream Impacts.- Hazards to Civilization from the Collision of Minor Bodies.- Historical Variations in the Meteor Flux as Found in the History of the Koryo Dynasty.- A Possible Interstellar Origin of Ancient Microspherules Recovered from Paleozoic and Mesozoic Radiolarian Chert in Japan: a Mechanism of their Intrusion into the Solar System.

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