The role of space missions in the assessment of the NEO impact hazard

54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 1161-1167

  Gálvez, Andrés ^a   Coradini, Marcello ^b   Ongaro, Franco ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISASTERS; HAZARDS; SPACE RESEARCH; SUN; TELESCOPES;

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA); INNER TO EARTH OBJECTS (IEO); NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS (NEO); POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS (PSF);

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 22344431871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. Alvarez, L, W. Alvarez, F. Asaro, & H.V. Michel, Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, Science, 208:1095-1108 (1980)
2. Chapman, C.R. and D. Morrison: Impacts on the Earth by asteroids and comets: Assessing the hazard, Nature 367:33-39 (1994)
3. Spaceguard Integrated System for Potentially Hazardous Objects Survey, (SISyPHOS), ESA contract 13265/98/D/IM(1999)
4. Study on the distribution of NEO's. ESA contract 14018/00/F/TB, (2001) http://www.obs-nice.fr/michel/Debiased_NEO.pdf
5. NEO hazard mitigation publication survey. ESA contract RFQ/14472/00/D-HK (2001)
6. Jedicke, R., Morbidelli, A., Spahr, t., Petit, J-M., and Bottke, W. F.2002. Earth and space-based NEO survey simulations: prospects for achieving the Spaceguard Goal, Icarus, 161,17-33, (2002)
7. Cellino, A., Zappala V., Tedesco E. F.: Near-Earth objects: Origins and need of physical characterization. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 37, 1965-1974 (2002)
8. Harris, A.W., A thermal model for near-Earth asteroids, Icarus, 131, 291-301.(1998)
9. Delbo, M., Harris, A.W., Physical Properties of Near-Earth Asteroids from Thermal-Infrared Observations and Thermal Modeling, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 37 (2002)