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Institute of Technology
Incoming Asteroid! What Could We Do About It?.
Incoming Asteroid' is based on a project within ASTRA (the Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics) to provide scientific answers to the question what would we do if we knew there was going to be an asteroid impact in ten years? time or less? Clearly there are many things humanity...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Astronomers' universe.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | Ebook Library |
| Summary: | Incoming Asteroid' is based on a project within ASTRA (the Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics) to provide scientific answers to the question what would we do if we knew there was going to be an asteroid impact in ten years? time or less? Clearly there are many things humanity can do nothing about, for example an unseen object traveling towards us so fast that we have no time to prepare, or an object so large it may be unstoppable. A realistic hazard model was decided upon, and the scenario developed from that: an incoming object about 1 kilometer in diameter, in an orbit ran. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (399 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781461487494 1461487498 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4614-8749-4 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |