A multi-criteria assessment of deflection methods for dangerous NEOs

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 886, Issue , 2007, Pages 317-336

  Sanchez Cuartielles, Joan Pau ^a   Colombo, Camilla ^a   Vasile, Massimiliano ^a   Radice, Gianmarco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Deviation; Mitigation; Nuclear blast; Solar collector

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947366006     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2710065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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