Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards Proceedings of
This volume is a compilation of the research presented at the International Asteroid Day workshop which was celebrated at Barcelona on June 30th, 2015. The proceedings discuss the beginning of a new era in the study and exploration of the solar system’s m
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Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez Maria Gritsevich Herbert Palme Editors
Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards Proceedings of the 2015 Barcelona Asteroid Day
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings Volume 46
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Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez • Maria Gritsevich Herbert Palme Editors
Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards Proceedings of the 2015 Barcelona Asteroid Day
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Editors Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez Campus UAB, 2a planta Institute of Space Sciences Bellaterra Barcelona Spain Herbert Palme Sektion Meteoritenforschung Senckenberg, Naturmuseum und Forschungsinstitut Frankfurt, Germany
Maria Gritsevich Department of Physics University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland Ural Federal University, Institute of Physics and Technology Ekaterinburg, Russia National Land Survey of Finland, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute Masala, Finland
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Preface: Impact Hazard, a Russian Roulette
Science is never ending, and the more we learn, the more we see how much we ignore. Descartes said that he would give everything he knew, if he would get half of what he ignored. What a good business for him, who died when Newton was still eight! After three centuries of riding the knowledge wave created by the latter, and now the new one by Einstein, even we would be quite well off if we made that swap. Let’s take the planets outside our Solar system as an example: until 2009,
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