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Covers in a comprehensive fashion all aspects of cosmic hazards and possible strategies for contending with these threats through a comprehensive planetary defense strategy. This handbook brings together in a single reference work a rich blend of information about the various types of cosmic threats that are posed to human civilization by asteroids, comets, bolides, meteors, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, cosmic radiation and other types of threats that are only recently beginning to be understood and studied, such as investigation of the “cracks” in the protective shield provided by the Van Allen belts and the geomagnetosphere, of matter-antimatter collisions, orbital debris and radiological or biological contamination.
Volume 1
Introduction
Solar Flares
Coronal Mass Ejections
Sun and Solar Wind Monitors
The Earth’s Natural Protective Systems and the Van Allen Belts
Cosmic Radiation
The NOAA Space Weather Program
Micrometeorites, Asteroids, and Comets
Volume 2
Ground-Based Discovery Efforts
Impact Risk Assessment and Estimation
Impact Consequences
Information Resources
Defending Against Planetary Threats
Mounting Hazards of Man-Made Threats in Space
Future of Planetary Defense
Impact Consequences
Information Resources
Defending Against Planetary Threats
Mounting Hazards of Man-Made Threats in Space
Future of Planetary Defense