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Date sent: Fri, 29 Aug
1997 11:46:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:
Benny J Peiser <B.J.PEISER@livjm.ac.uk
Subject:
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL NEO CONFERENCE
To:
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NEW BOOK RELEASE:
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Volume 822 (1997)
NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS: THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Editor: John L. Remo
550 pp.
ISBN 1-57331-041-7
$140.00
To order: fax 212 888 2894
e-mail
publications@nyas.org
This book puts into perspective recent discoveries in the
natural
sciences that describe the part played by Earth-crossing
asteroids
and comets in the extinction of a large range of species. These
perspectives include the effects of past terrestrial impacts
contained within the fossil record, current astronomical
observations of near-Earth objects (NEOs), and future
observations
and exploration missions to understand the properties of NEOs and
assess the hazards they may pose to planet Earth.
CONTENTS
Preface. By John L. Remo
Development NEO Research: a Chronological Outline. By John L. Remo
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) Program. By Eleanor F.
Helin,
Steven H. Pravdo, David L. Rabinowitz, and Kenneth J. Lawrence
The Uncertain Nature of Cometary Motions. By Donald K. Yeomans
The EUNEASO Project: A European NEO Search, Follow-up, and
Physical
Observation Programme. By G. Hahn, S. Mottola, A. Erikson, A.W.
Harris, G.
Neukum, A. Maury, R. Savalle, H. Scholl, A. Bijaoui, M.
Dimartino, C.
Barbieri,m. Lazzarin, F. Migliorini, P. Pravec, M. Wolf, L.
Sarounova, F.P.
Velichko, Yu.N. Krugly, I.n. Belskaya, and V.G. Shevchenko
The European NEO Search Project Within EUNEASO. By Alain
Maury, Renaud
Savalle, Gerhard Hahn, Stefano Mottola, and Gerhard Neukum
Meteoroid Orbits: Implications for Near-Earth Object Search
Programs. By
Duncan Steel
Overview of Orbits. By Brian G. Marsden
Long-period Comets and the Oort Cloud. By Paul R. Weissman
Comets as Porous Aggregates of Interstellar Dust. By J. Mayo
Greenberg and
John L. Remo
Radar Reconnaissance of Near-Earth Objects at the Dawn of the
Next
Millennium. By Steven J. Ostro
Colliding Asteroids from Blind Directions. By Syuzo Isobe and
Makoto
Yoshikawa Correlation of Ground- and Space-based Bolides. By Z.
Ceplecha, C.
Jacobs, and C. Zaffery
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Fragment Size Estimates: How Big Was
the Parent
Body? By David A. Crawford
Observations and Studies of NEOs and the SL-9 Impact at the
Purple Mountain
Observatory. By Heqi Zhang, Jiaxiang Zhang, Sichao Wang, Qi Wang,
and
Jiexing Yang
NEO Orbits and Nonlinear Dynamics: A Brief Overview and
Interpretations. By
John L. Remo
Fast Resonance Shifting as a Mechanism of Dynamic Instability
Illustrated by
Comets and CHE Trajectories. By Edward Belbruno
II. Earth and Planetary Sciences
Gaspra and Ida: Implications of Spacecraft Reconnaissance for
NEO Issues. By
Clark R. Chapman
Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Plume-forming Collisions on Earth. By
Mark B.E.
Boslough and David A. Crawford
Atmospheric Screening of Comet and Asteroid Impacts. By H.J. Melosh
Historical Detection of Atmospheric Impacts by Large Bolides
Using
Acoustic-Gravity Waves. By Douglas O. Revelle
Analysis of Satellite Observations of Large Meteoroid Impacts.
By I.V.
Nemtchinov, C. Jacobs, and E. Tagliaferri
Impact Record in the Solar System. By Gerhard Neukum
Target Earth: Evidence for Large-Scale Impact Events. By
Richard A.F.
Grieve
The Cretaceous-Tertiary Impact Crater and the Cosmic
Projectile That
Produced It. By Virgil L. Sharpton and Luis E. Marín
Tsunami Produced by the Impacts of Small Asteroids. By Jack G.
Hills and
Charles L. Mader
On Kill Curves and Sampling Protocols: Studying the
Relationships Between
Impact and Extinction. By Peter D. Ward
Cretaceous Habitats Before the End: the Record from 75,000,000
Year-Old
Rocks in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico. By Donald L. Wolberg
Paleobiological Implications of Mass Extinctions. By David Jablonski
Asteroid Impacts and Mass Extinctions No Cause for
Concern. By Gerta
Keller
Environmental Perturbations Caused by the Impacts of Asteroids
and Comets.
By Owen B. Toon, Kevin Zahnle, David Morrison, Richard P. Turco,
and Curt
Covey
A Unified Theory of Impact Crises and Mass Extinctions:
Quantitative Tests.
By Michael R. Rampino, Bruce M. Haggerty, and Thomas C. Pagano
III. Astronautics
NEO Mission Dynamics and Advanced Space Propulsion. By P.M.
Sforza and J.L.
Remo
High Performance Ultra-Light Nuclear Rockets for Near-Earth
Objects
Interaction Missions. By James Powell, George Maise, Hans
Ludewig, and
Michael Todosow
Near-Earth Resources. By Richard Gertsch, John L. Remo, and
Leslie Sour
Gertsch
Mining Near-Earth Resources. By Richard Gertsch, Leslie Sour
Gertsch, and
John L. Remo
IV. Detection and Mitigation
Several Aspects of Space Protection of the Earth: Conceptual
Development. By
VA. Simonenko
Optimal Detection of Near-Earth Object Threats. By Gregory H. Canavan
Technology for the Detection of Near-Earth Objects. By G.H.
Stokes and D.F.
Kostishack
A Near-Earth Object Hazard Index. By Richard P. Binzel
Momentum Coupling to NEOs. By B.P. Shafer, M.D. Garcia, R.A.
Managan, J.L.
Remo, C.E. Rosenkilde, R.J. Scammon, C.M. Snell, and R.F.
Stellingwerf
Ice Issues, Porosity, and Snow Experiments for Dynamic NEO and
Comet
Modeling. By M.D. Furnish and J.L. Remo
Magnetospheric Effects as a New Aspect of the Asteroid Impact
Problem:
Necessity and Possibilities of Laboratory Simulation Experiments.
By Yuri P.
Zakharov, Sergei A. Nikitin, Arnold G. Ponomarenko, and Shigeyuki
Minami
Laboratory Planetary Physics. By P. Hammerling and J.L. Remo
V. United Nations Related Issues
A Proposal to the United Nations Regarding the International
Discovery
Programs of Near-Earth Asteroids. By Tom Gehrels
International Efforts Toward the Spaceguard System. By A. Carusi
Space Debris Issue at the United Nations. By Petr Lála
United Nations Contributions to the Worldwide Development of
Astronomy. By
Hans J. Haubold
Index of Contributors
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Date sent: Fri, 29 Aug
1997 10:30:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:
Benny J Peiser <B.J.PEISER@livjm.ac.uk
Subject: A
SECOND 'TUNGUSKA' EVENT?
To:
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A CALL FOR HELP:
WAS THERE ANOTHER TUNGUSKA-LIKE EVENT ON JULY 12, 1908?
from: Joel Schiff <j,schiff@math.auckland.ac.nz
Benny,
Below is something sent to me regarding events just prior to
Tunguska. Do you have a student who could possibly check on the
dates mentioned below, since I cannot believe that there was a
2nd
Tunguska, two weeks prior to the real thing. The volumes
mentioned
might be accessible from your end. If the dates are genuine, then
this becomes most interesting!
Regards,
Joel
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from: Andrei Yu. Olkhovatov <andrei@olkhov.msk.ru
AN UNKNOWN TUNGUSKA OF JULY 12, 1908?
Andrei Olkhovatov
Russia, 123448, Moscow, prospekt marshala
Zhukova 46, apt.35
e-mail: <andrei@olkhov.msk.ru
Recently, searching for the 1908 Tunguska-related events, I
discovered an interesting note, reproduced below:
July 17, 1908. ENGLISH MECHANIC
AND WORLD OF SCIENCE: vol. 87,
No. 2260, p. 551
SCIENTIFIC NEWS.
"The abnormal barometrical changes last Sunday have
attracted the
notice of many meteorologists. During the forenoon and first part
of
the afternoon there was a very slight decrease of pressure
connected
with the shallow cyclonic depression lying over the country. At
three
o'clock there was a sudden, though slight, dip, amounting to 0.01
in.
(the one-hundredth part of an inch of mercury), then a rise of
0.02
in. by half-past three. In the next half-hour there was a very
rapid
fall of 0.05 in., followed immediately by a bound up to 0.04 in.
in a
quarter of an hour, and a slower rise of 0.02 in. in three
quarters of
an hour, up to five o'clock. Then came the most remarkable change
of
the day, a drop of 0.1 in. (one tenth of an inch) in half an
hour, and
this was succeeded by a brisk ascent of 0.04 in. in the next
half-hour, up to six o'clock, when on the stroke of the hour the
curious movement suddenly ceased, and the barometer became
stationary.
A correspondent of the "Morning Post" remarks that the
only
explanation of this rare fall of the barometer of one-tenth of an
inch
within the hour, with no thunderstorm in London, is the
occurrence of
some terrible disaster in a distant part of the globe, far away
from
telegraphic communication. Nearly twenty-five years ago, towards
the
close of August, 1883, the Javan island of Krakatoa was rent
asunder
by a terrific explosion, and one-half of the island disappeared
in the
sea. Such was the violence of the outburst that both the air and
the
sea all round the earth were affected. The aerial waves set up
swept
across the continents, and were recorded by the self-registering
barometers, so that the late Sir Richard Strachey was able to
trace
the whole wave-movement round and round the globe. The amplitudes
of
Sunday's oscillations were greater than those of a quarter of a
century ago, and it will be interesting (remarks the
"Morning Post")
to note whether other, but less marked, oscillations will occur
in
the next few days, because, if the originating cause of the
movement
has been something of the Krakatoa character, the aerial wave set
up
would go round more than once. It cannot, of course, be stated
definitely that a great calamity has occurred; but the very
unusual
atmospheric tidal wave that rolled so silently over the
Metropolis
on Sunday afternoon was too great to have had a local origin, and
it
may be some days before it can be determined whether there has
been
anything resembling the Krakatoa disaster."
At first, when I quickly looked through the note, I had a
thought
that it is a description of barographic disturbances caused by
the
Tunguska event, but when I read again, I understood that it was
not
the Tunguska. At first, the June 30, 1908 was Tuesday, not
Sunday.
The second, the June 30 barographic disturbances in England
occurred
at 5.06 - 5.23 a.m. and lasted for half an hour, while
above-mentioned took place from 3 to 6 p.m.. The amplitude of the
disturbances is by an order of magnitude greater than the
Tunguska
one. The 'last Sunday' from July 17 is July 12, so it is a
probable
date of the event. I would like to appeal to readers to take part
in
the investigation. At first, the date July 12 must be check (the
"Morning Post" article could be useful). Then the
original
barographic recordings should be searched all over the world. If
these disturbances also present on them, i.e. they are, indeed,
of
global character, rough estimation of their source location
could be done.