REFERENCES
- The motivation for relevant planetary science can be found in the COMPLEX report, An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences, 1995-2010 (National Academy of Science Press, Washington, DC, 1994)
- A summary of asteroid science may be found in the volume Asteroids II, edited by R.P.Binzel, T. Gehrels, and M. Mathews (University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1989)
- A summary of comet science can be found in The Post-Halley Era, edited by M. Neugebauer, R. Newburn, Jr., and J. Rahe (Kluwer, Dordecht, Holland, 1990), and in Physics and Chemistry of Comets, edited by W.F. Heubner (Springer-Velag, Heidelberg, 1991)
- For more information on asteroids, check out http://windows.ivv.nasa.gov/asteroids/asteroids.html
- For more information on comets, check out http://www.windows.umich.edu/comets/comets.html
- Ground-based telescopes are used to watch asteroids that orbit close to Earth, not only to detect new ones or keep track of them, but because of the possibility that an asteroid might collide with the Earth in the future. Two of these ground-based telescopes are the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking telescope on the rim of Haleakala Crater in Maui, Hawaii and the Spacewatch telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona.
- Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards
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