Asteroids: relics of ancient time
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| adam_text | Asteroids
Relics of Ancient Time
The world was stunned when an undetected asteroid catastrophically
exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013, injuring over
1000 people. Luckily, such events are very rare. More commonly,
asteroids skim the Earth without impact, as in March 2014, when
three asteroids hurtled past our planet within a few days.
Where do asteroids come from and what are they made of?
What clues do they hold about the evolution of the solar system?
Asteroids are of great interest to planetary scientists because they
are relics of shattered protoplanets - time capsules that tell us about
the earliest days of the solar system. Scientists have cataloged
hundreds of thousands of asteroids. Most of them are found in the
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and many are thought to
contain water and amino acids, the building blocks of life.
Michael Shepard tells the fascinating story of their discovery,
and what they can tell us about the history of our own planet.
He describes how we find and study asteroids, what they look
like through the eyes of powerful telescopes and spacecraft, and
plans for future sample return missions.
This timely book interweaves accessible scientific
explanations with historical background and personal narrative,
providing an engaging read for anyone curious about asteroids and
what they may mean for our future - both as threats and
opportunities.
Michael k. shepard is a Professor of Geosciences at Bloomsburg
University in Pennsylvania, specializing in radar asteroid studies.
Prior to this, he worked at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. His latest
research involves studying a specific group of asteroids, the M-class,
which are thought to be metal cores of ancient protoplanets. He has
discovered two asteroid moons, and has also been honored with an
asteroid named 20392 Mikeshepard.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Brief list of asteroid and meteorite terms
1 It s a small world
Train Station Six
Kepler, Bode, and the gap
The gap widens
Piazzi plugs the gap
Discovery of Eros and the near-Earth asteroids
The return of Achilles and the Trojans
The tutor of Achilles
The underworld
Pluto: Asteroid? Planet? Some of both?
El Bizarro? No, Elst-Pizarro
Naming
2 A night at the zoo
Sacred ground
The tool box
Cameras
The resolution wall
Measuring brightness: The magnitude scale
Phase angle effects
Glowing cinders
WISE mission
Going to class
Dividing the flock: C s and S s
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VIII CONTENTS
Learning the alphabet 61
The spread 63
3 It came from outer space 67
The ice field, Antarctica 67
Pallas 69
Chladni: Intuition and luck 72
Howard finds nickel 77
From Barth, Moon, or space? 79
Petrographic microscope 81
Rain of fire 83
Eyes that see 85
Ears that hear 88
Murchison, Australia 91
Life? 94
4 A day at the museum 97
Haviland, Kansas 97
Falls and finds 99
Rocks: In general 100
The meteorite family tree 102
Parent bodies 103
Types of chondrites 106
Grading the class 111
Achondrites 113
SNCs aka snicks 119
Pieces of the Moon 120
Stones within stones: Breccias and xenoliths 121
Space weathering 122
The power of Q 123
Making connections 126
5 The gambler s fallacy 131
The awakening 131
CONTENTS IX
Chelyabinsk, Russia 133
Craters, volcanoes, and the problem of big
meteorites 135
Showdown at Coon Butte 138
Barringer 141
Mountains fall from the sky 143
Fractals and power laws 146
Tunguska, Russia 148
The boundary 150
Chicxulub, Mexico 154
6 Remembrance of things past 159
In the hood 159
The age of things 160
Dating by decay 162
The rules of dating 165
Patterson dates the first meteorites ... and the Earth 168
The fingerprint detection kit 170
Exposed 173
Clusters 175
A great cataclysm 178
The oldest things 179
Xenon and stellar stowaways 182
The best guess: What really happened 184
7 The ties that bind 191
False dawn 191
Ellipses and orbits 192
Professor Kirkwood s gaps 196
Secular resonance 199
Highway in the sky 200
Light versus gravity 201
Yarkovsky 204
Professor Hirayama s time machine 208
X CONTENTS
Dust to dust 211
The truth about Veritas 213
8 Terra incognita 219
Arecibo Radar Observatory 219
In the path of shadows 221
Adaptive optics 224
Lightcurves 226
Shapes from lightcurves 228
The observatories 231
Radar love 234
A continuous wave 236
Radar eyes 238
Shapes from radar 240
Twins! 243
YORP! 247
A Poor Man s Mission 248
9 To your scattered bodies go 253
A NEAR abort 253
Galileo visits Gaspra and Ida 255
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) 257
NEAR sees 253 Mathilde 262
Rosetta flies by Steins and Lutetia 263
Deep Impact: A hit and run on Comet Tempel I 267
The Muses Sea 269
Dawn at Vesta 273
Dawn departs for Ceres 277
Future missions 279
10 Scouts, sappers, and miners 283
Apophis 283
Who is on watch? 284
CONTENTS
How we search 288
Search magnitude limits 288
The nerve centers 291
Warning the public 292
What are the odds? 295
Damage report 297
Future searches 298
Dodging the bullet 303
Catch and release 306
A new gold rush? 308
Glossary 312
Bibliography 319
Index 341
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