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The Seneca Effect [E-Book] : Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid /
Bardi, Ugo
2017
Table of Contents: ... collapses -- The Seneca asteroid: climate change as the ultimate collapse -- Managing complex systems: how to pull the levers in the right direction -- Conclusion: How to euthanize an empire....

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The Lidov-Kozai Effect - Applications in Exoplanet Research and Dynamical Astronomy [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...Preface -- Historical Background -- Secular Theories in Celestial Mechanics -- LKE: Classical Results -- LKE: The Theory Advances -- Understanding Irregular Satellites -- Sungrazing Comets -- Asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects in Inclined Orbits...

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Cosmic Debris [E-Book] : What It Is and What We Can Do About It /
Table of Contents: ...Chapter 1: Defining Cosmic Debris -- Chapter 2: Minor Planets and Asteroids -- Chapter 3: Comets -- Chapter 4: Meteors and Meteorites -- Chapter 5: Fireballs -- Chapter 6: Near Earth Objects -- Chapter 7: Life Givers or Life Takers? -- Chapter 8: Our Own...

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Scattering and Structures [E-Book] : Essentials and Analogies in Quantum Physics /
Table of Contents: ... of Strong Interaction -- The Nuclear Force - Pion Sharing -- Nuclei - Droplets of a Fermi Liquid -- Stars, Planets and Asteroids - Interplay between Gravitation and Quantum Phenomena -- Elementary Particles - Fundamental Interactions -- Cosmology - The Early...

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Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century [E-Book] : Historical Studies in Asteroid Research /
Table of Contents: ... Letters -- Chapter 8 The Gauss Letters.-Chapter 9 The Harding Letters -- Chapter 10 Herschel's Asteroids -- Chapter 11 Scientific Papers -- Chapter 12 Gauss: The Great Asteroid Treatises -- Appendices....

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Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta [E-Book] : Historical Studies in Asteroid Research /
Table of Contents: ...Preface -- Exordium -- 1 Olbers' Hypothesis: The Origin of the Asteroids -- 2 Regnér's Attacks on Olbers' Hypothesis -- 3 Brewster's Support for Olbers' Hypothesis -- 4 The Discovery of Vesta -- 5 Vesta: A Self-Luminous Asteroid?- 6 Asteroids...

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Bode's Law and the Discovery of Juno [E-Book] : Historical Studies in Asteroid Research /
Table of Contents: ...Preface -- Hegel, Bode's Law and the Missing Planet -- The Discovery of Juno -- Juno: A Driving Force for Change -- The Music of Spheres -- The Big Four Asteroids in Verse -- Letters: Bessel with Gauss and Olbers -- The Gauss-Olbers Letters...

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Weird Comets and Asteroids [E-Book] : The Strange Little Worlds of the Sun's Family /
Table of Contents: ... The Mice that Roared -- Appendix 1 The Taurid Complex -- Appendix 2 Comet/Asteroid "Transition" Objects -- Glossary of Terms -- Name Index -- Subject Index....

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Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards [E-Book] : Proceedings of the 2015 Barcelona Asteroid Day /
Table of Contents: ...Barcelona Asteroid Day 2015: Revisiting the Threat by Asteroid and Comet Impact -- Dynamic Sources of Contemporary Hazard From Meteoroids and Small Asteroids -- The Chemistry of Solar System Materials: Sun, Planets, Asteroids, Meteorites and Dust...

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Hyper-Velocity Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroids [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...Introduction -- Methods -- A New Approach to Modelling Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroid Simulants -- Impacts on Rubble Pile Asteroid Å teins -- Discussion....

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Asteroid and space debris manipulation : advances from the Stardust Research Network [E-Book] /
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Physics of Soft Impact and Cratering [E-Book] /
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Dawn of Small Worlds [E-Book] : Dwarf Planets, Asteroids, Comets /
Table of Contents: ...The Solar System - An Overview -- Dwarf Planets -- Asteroids -- Comets -- References....

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Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres [E-Book] : Historical Studies in Asteroid Research /
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Early Investigations of Ceres and the Discovery of Pallas [E-Book] : Historical Studies in Asteroid Research /
Table of Contents: ...The Triumph of the Human Intellect -- France vs Germany -- Hegel and Ceres -- Piazzi's Deception -- Herschel's New Dynasty -- Origins of the Asteroids -- The Scientific Papers about Ceres -- Biographies....

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Rock Legends [E-Book] : The Asteroids and Their Discoverers /
Table of Contents: ... the Gap -- Chapter 7: Controlled by Jupiter -- Chapter 8: The Chaotic Solar System -- Chapter 9: The Fate of Asteroids -- References....

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The Solar System in Close-Up [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...The new solar system -- Space probes and telescopes -- The dominant Sun -- Mercury - the messenger -- Venus - the bright goddess -- Earth - the planet of life -- Mars - the red planet -- The Asteroids - a belt of rocks -- Jupiter - king of the planets...

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Picture This! [E-Book] : Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space /
Table of Contents: ...Preface: The Long and the Short of It -- Part One: Our Place in the Cosmos -- Chapter One: Asteroids, Comets, and Our Cosmic Landscape -- Chapter Two: Ice Dwarfs and Tiny Moons -- Chapter Three: The Weirdest Moons, Large and Small -- Chapter Four: A Tour...

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Moons of the Solar System [E-Book] : From Giant Ganymede to Dainty Dactyl /
Table of Contents: ...Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes on the Text -- Part I:  Moons -- 1: The Inner Planets: Mercury and Venus -- 2: Earth and Luna -- 3: Mars -- 4: Asteroids -- 5: Jupiter.- 6: Saturn -- 7: Uranus -- 8: Neptune -- 9: Distant...

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A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis [E-Book] /