Impacts on Earth

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Benest, Daniel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Froeschle, Claude (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 505
• Subjects: Astrophysics.; Planetology.; Space sciences.; Geophysics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Astrobiology.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Impact phenomena play an essential role in the formation of planets and great influence during their evolution. The first part of this book describes the dynamics that propels asteroids in our solar system; the second part is devoted to impact phenomena; the third inspects terrestrial impacts of ast...

Table of Contents:

• I: Origin and Dynamics of Projectiles
• II. Physics of Shocks
• III. Terrestrial Impacts.