Asteroid and spacecraft dynamics : proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission B and P (Meetings B4 and P1) of the COSPAR Twenty-eighth Plenary Meeting held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 25 June - 6 July 1990
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Asteroid and spacecraft dynamics : proceedings of the Topical Meeting of the COSPAR Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission B and P (Meetings B4 and P1) of the COSPAR Twenty-eighth Plenary Meeting held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 25 June - 6 July 1990
（Advances in space research, v. 11,
Published for The Committee on Space Research by Pergamon Press, c1991
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Global dynamics of asteroidal and cometary impacts could have important consequences not only on the shaping of planetary surface structures and atmospheric/oceanic constitutions but also on the origin and extinction of life. The papers presented in the first section of this volume indicate promising directions for research work in seeking the linkage between planetesimal debris remaining from planetary formation and their continuing impacts on the geological evolution and the history of life on different planets. The second section in this volume highlights the latest developments in spacecraft dynamics. The special techniques provided by satellite laser ranging for tracking satellite orbits have proved highly successful over the past twenty years. The models of the Earth's gravity field, atmospheric drag and radiation forces acting on the satellites are improving continuously whilst innovative techniques such as space-borne gradiometry and GPS positioning will become increasingly important.
Table of Contents
- Section headings and selected papers: Cometary and Asteroidal Interactions with Planetary Atmospheres. Preface. Physical Properties and Orbital Statistics. On the properties of comets, asteroids and terrestrial planet impactors, H Rickman. A rapid method of estimating the collision frequencies between the Earth and the Earth-crossing bodies, S-Y Su & D J Kessl
- r. Comet craters versus asteroid craters, M E Bailey. Atmospheric and Surface Impact Processes. Large scale perturbations of the terrestrial atmosphere: some considerations relating to the role of cometary trails and disintegrating meteoroids, S V M Clube. Atmospheric impact processes, H J Melosh. Advances in Spacecraft Dynamics. Introduction. The role of laser determined orbits in geodesy and geophysics, R Kolenkiewicz et al . Global non-dynamic improvement of radial positioning for altimeter satellites, P Moore & R D Gray.
- Atmospheric density parameters from Seasat laser ranging, D A Rothwell & P Moore.
- n the use of analytical atmospheric models for determination of space stations "Saljut" and "Mir" orbits, T Kasimenko & N Sorokin
- On the universality of orbital theory for satellite motion perturbed by gravitational harmonics, R H Gooding. The motion of natural and artificial satellites in Mars gravity field, E Wnuk & S Breiter
- Accuracy Assessment of GPS satellite orbits, B E Schutz et al . Author index.
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