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Author: Diane Bailey Publisher: Lerner Publications TM ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Asteroids are always moving in space, but what do we do if one of these giant space rocks heads straight for Earth? With technology and spacecrafts like DART, we now have the answer.
Author: Diane Bailey Publisher: Lerner Publications TM ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Asteroids are always moving in space, but what do we do if one of these giant space rocks heads straight for Earth? With technology and spacecrafts like DART, we now have the answer.
Author: Oscar Duncan Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Could we STOP an asteroid from colliding with Earth, like the one that killed out the dinosaurs? That's what NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test is on a mission to find out! The world's first full-scale mission to test equipment for shielding Earth from potential asteroid crashes has successfully completed its mission; now experts will be monitoring to see if it was successful. Here is what you will see in this book; What is DART? The DART Spacecraft Everything you need to know about NASA's DART mission Nasa live stream asteroid A binary pair of space rocks The Nasa Dart Mission The Nasa Dart Threat Asteroid in first major test The Nasa Dart Launch How To Watch Live Coverage of Spacecraft's Impact With Asteroid Dimorphous Scroll up and click the purchase button to get your own book right away and profit from the in-depth information regarding NASA's DART program.
Author: Patrick Michel Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816532133 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 946
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"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.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309149681 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 152
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The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may collide with Earth. The majority of this funding supports the operation of several observatories that scan the sky searching for NEOs. This, however, is insufficient in detecting the majority of NEOs that may present a tangible threat to humanity. A significantly smaller amount of funding supports ways to protect the Earth from such a potential collision or "mitigation." In 2005, a Congressional mandate called for NASA to detect 90 percent of NEOs with diameters of 140 meters of greater by 2020. Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies identifies the need for detection of objects as small as 30 to 50 meters as these can be highly destructive. The book explores four main types of mitigation including civil defense, "slow push" or "pull" methods, kinetic impactors and nuclear explosions. It also asserts that responding effectively to hazards posed by NEOs requires national and international cooperation. Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies is a useful guide for scientists, astronomers, policy makers and engineers.
Author: Thomas Kenkmann Publisher: Geological Society of America ISBN: 0813723841 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 486
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"The third volume of the series “Large Meteorite Impacts” provides an updated and comprehensive overview of modern impact crater research. In 26 chapters, more than 90 authors from Europe, the United States, Russia, Canada, and South Africa give a balanced, firsthand account of the multidisciplinary field of cratering science, with reports on field studies, geophysical analyses, and experimental and numerical simulations. Nine chapters focus on structure, geophysics, and cratering motions of terrestrial craters. Recent advances in impact ejecta studies and shock metamorphism are assembled, each with seven chapters, and three chapters extend the scope from a terrestrial to a planetary perspective."--pub. desc.
Author: Bryan Walsh Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 0316449601 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 382
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In this history of extinction and existential risk, a Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist examines our most dangerous mistakes -- and explores how we can protect and future-proof our civilization. End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable -- and inevitable -- end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, veteran science reporter and TIME editor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastrophic threats to the human race. In End Times, Walsh examines threats that emerge from nature and those of our own making: asteroids, supervolcanoes, nuclear war, climate change, disease pandemics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial intelligence. Walsh details the true probability of these world-ending catastrophes, the impact on our lives were they to happen, and the best strategies for saving ourselves, all pulled from his rigorous and deeply thoughtful reporting and research. Walsh goes into the room with the men and women whose job it is to imagine the unimaginable. He includes interviews with those on the front lines of prevention, actively working to head off existential threats in biotechnology labs and government hubs. Guided by Walsh's evocative, page-turning prose, we follow scientific stars like the asteroid hunters at NASA and the disease detectives on the trail of the next killer virus. Walsh explores the danger of apocalypse in all forms. In the end, it will be the depth of our knowledge, the height of our imagination, and our sheer will to survive that will decide the future.
Author: Linda Billings Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Communications NASA History Division ISBN: 9781626830530 Category : Astronautics Languages : en Pages :
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"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, Mariner 2 sent to Venus in 1962, the NASA History Program Office, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory organized a symposium. "Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have learned about the other bodies of the solar system and the processes by which we have learned it. Symposium organizers asked authors to address broad topics relating to the history of solar system exploration such as various flight projects, the development of space science disciplines, the relationship between robotic exploration and human spaceflight, the development of instruments and methodologies for scientific exploration, as well as the development of theories about planetary science, solar system origins and implications for other worlds. The papers in this volume provide a richly textured picture of important developments - and some colorful characters - in a half century of solar system exploration. A comprehensive history of the first 50 years of solar system exploration would fill many volumes. What readers will find in this volume is a collection of interesting stories about money, politics, human resources, commitment, competition and cooperation, and the "faster, better, cheaper" era of solar system exploration"--
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