56-57Despite our Earth-bound perceptions, our home planet is but an insignificant speck in space. It is fragile and vulnerable to hits from asteroids or space rocks on a collision course. Asteroids range in size from those like Ceres with a diameter of ~1000 km to those the size of sand grains
AbstractUnderstanding of the near-Earth asteroid impact hazard has been evolving. As larger near-Ear...
Most asteroids and comets are thought to be remnant collisional fragments of the building blocks fro...
We are now approaching the level of technical expertise necessary to deflect a near-Earth asteroid (...
Collisions between planetesimals, the precursors of present-day asteroids and comets, and growing pl...
Recently some small celestial bodies have approached to the Earth. Asteroids with this characteristi...
There is a 1-in-10,000 chance that a large (∼2-km diameter) asteroid or comet will collide with the ...
Collisions between planetesimals (the precursors of present-day asteroids and comets) and growing pl...
On 15 February 2013, an asteroid 17 metres in size and weighing some 10,000 tons entered Earth’s atm...
Most asteroids and comets are thought to be remnant collisional fragments of planetesimals, the buil...
The long-term stability of the Solar System is not well understood. Ironically its stability is take...
International audienceThe risk of humanity extinction by giant asteroid impact is addressed. A 100 k...
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of asteroids travel in orbits that intersect the Earth’s orbit. Some ha...
The small fraction of asteroids with Earth-crossing or Earth-approaching orbits is of spe-cial inter...
The collisional process between small bodies is one of the key processes in the formation and evolut...
Among the several risks to which the terrestrial life is subject, there is a remote possibility of c...
AbstractUnderstanding of the near-Earth asteroid impact hazard has been evolving. As larger near-Ear...
Most asteroids and comets are thought to be remnant collisional fragments of the building blocks fro...
We are now approaching the level of technical expertise necessary to deflect a near-Earth asteroid (...
Collisions between planetesimals, the precursors of present-day asteroids and comets, and growing pl...
Recently some small celestial bodies have approached to the Earth. Asteroids with this characteristi...
There is a 1-in-10,000 chance that a large (∼2-km diameter) asteroid or comet will collide with the ...
Collisions between planetesimals (the precursors of present-day asteroids and comets) and growing pl...
On 15 February 2013, an asteroid 17 metres in size and weighing some 10,000 tons entered Earth’s atm...
Most asteroids and comets are thought to be remnant collisional fragments of planetesimals, the buil...
The long-term stability of the Solar System is not well understood. Ironically its stability is take...
International audienceThe risk of humanity extinction by giant asteroid impact is addressed. A 100 k...
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of asteroids travel in orbits that intersect the Earth’s orbit. Some ha...
The small fraction of asteroids with Earth-crossing or Earth-approaching orbits is of spe-cial inter...
The collisional process between small bodies is one of the key processes in the formation and evolut...
Among the several risks to which the terrestrial life is subject, there is a remote possibility of c...
AbstractUnderstanding of the near-Earth asteroid impact hazard has been evolving. As larger near-Ear...
Most asteroids and comets are thought to be remnant collisional fragments of the building blocks fro...
We are now approaching the level of technical expertise necessary to deflect a near-Earth asteroid (...