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Asteroids IV
Patrick Michel (Ed.)
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Description for Asteroids IV
Hardback. "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. Editor(s): Michel, Patrick. Num Pages: 785 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 53. Weight in Grams: 2404.
Over the past decade, asteroids have come to the forefront of planetary science. Scientists across broad disciplines are increasingly recognizing that understanding asteroids is essential to discerning the basic processes of planetary formation, including how their current distribution bespeaks our solar system's cataclysmic past. For explorers, the nearest asteroids beckon as the most accessible milestones in interplanetary space, offering spaceflight destinations easier to reach than the lunar surface. For futurists, the prospects of asteroids as commercial resources tantalize as a twenty-first-century gold rush, albeit with far greater challenges than faced by nineteenth-century pioneers. For humanity, it is the realization that ... Read more
Over the past decade, asteroids have come to the forefront of planetary science. Scientists across broad disciplines are increasingly recognizing that understanding asteroids is essential to discerning the basic processes of planetary formation, including how their current distribution bespeaks our solar system's cataclysmic past. For explorers, the nearest asteroids beckon as the most accessible milestones in interplanetary space, offering spaceflight destinations easier to reach than the lunar surface. For futurists, the prospects of asteroids as commercial resources tantalize as a twenty-first-century gold rush, albeit with far greater challenges than faced by nineteenth-century pioneers. For humanity, it is the realization that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
785
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816532131
SKU
V9780816532131
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About Patrick Michel (Ed.)
Patrick Michel is a senior researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), where he leads the Lagrange Laboratory planetary science team at the Côte d’Azur Observatory (Nice, France). He is the author of more than ninety publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Francesca E. DeMeo is a planetary scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences ... Read more
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