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Asteroids IV /

"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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Michel, Patrick, 1970- (Editor ), DeMeo, Francesca E. (Editor ), Bottke, William F. (William Frederick), 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houston : Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Contributing Authors; Scientific Organizing Committee and Acknowledgment of Reviewers; Foreword; Preface; Part 1: Introduction; Asteroids: Recent Advances and New Perspectives (P. Michel, F.E. DeMeo, and W.F. Bottke); Part 2: Physical and Compositional Properties; 2.1. Asteroid Composition and Physical Properties; The Compositional Structure of the Asteroid Belt (F.E. DeMeo, C.M. O'D. Alexander, K.J. Walsh, C.R. Chapman, and R.P. Binzel); Mineralogy and Surface Composition of Asteroids (V. Reddy, T.L. Dunn, C.A. Thomas, N.A. Moskovitz, and T.H. Burbine).
  • Astronomical Observations of Volatiles on Asteroids (A.S. Rivkin, H. Campins, J.P. Emery, E.S. Howell, J. Licandro, D. Takir, and F. Vilas)Space-Based Thermal Infrared Studies of Asteroids (A. Mainzer, F. Usui, and D.E. Trilling); Asteroid Thermophysical Modeling (M. Delbo, M. Mueller, J.P. Emery, B. Rozitis, and M.T. Capria); Asteroid Photometry (J.-Y. Li, P. Helfenstein, B.J. Buratti, D. Takir, and B.E. Clark); Asteroid Polarimetry (I. Belskaya, A. Cellino, R. Gil-Hutton, K. Muinonen, and Y. Shkuratov).
  • Radar Observations of Near-Earth and Main-Belt Asteroids (L.A.M. Benner, M.W. Busch, J.D. Giorgini, P.A. Taylor, and J.-L. Margot)Asteroid Models from Multiple Data Sources (J. Ďurech, B. Carry, M. Delbo, M. Kaasalainen, and M. Viikinkoski); 2.2. Populations; The Complex History of Trojan Asteroids (J.P. Emery, F. Marzari, A. Morbidelli, L.M. French, and T. Grav); The Active Asteroids (D. Jewitt, H. Hsieh, and J. Agarwal); The Near-Earth Object Population: Connections to Comets, Main-Belt Asteroids, and Meteorites (R.P. Binzel, V. Reddy, and T.L. Dunn).
  • Small Near-Earth Asteroids as a Source of Meteorites (J. Borovička, P. Spurný, and P. Brown)Meteoroid Streams and Zodiacal Dust (P. Jenniskens); 2.3. Families; Identification and Dynamical Properties of Asteroid Families (D. Nesvorný, M. Brož, and V. Carruba); Asteroid Family Physical Properties (J.R. Masiero, F.E. DeMeo, T. Kasuga, and A.H. Parker); Collisional Formation and Modeling of Asteroid Families (P. Michel, D.C. Richardson, D.D. Durda, M. Jutzi, and E. Asphaug); 2.4. Multiple Systems.
  • Asteroid Systems: Binaries, Triples, and Pairs (J.-L. Margot, P. Pravec, P. Taylor, B. Carry, and S. Jacobson)Formation and Evolution of Binary Asteroids (K.J. Walsh and S.A. Jacobson); Part 3: Space Missions; Hayabusa Sample Return Mission (M. Yoshikawa, J. Kawaguchi, A. Fujiwara, and A. Tsuchiyama); The Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres (C.T. Russell, H.Y. McSween, R. Jaumann, and C.A. Raymond); The Flybys of Asteroids (2867) Šteins, (21) Lutetia, and (4179) Toutatis (M.A. Barucci, M. Fulchignoni, J. Ji, S. Marchi, and N. Thomas).