
Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids
Physical, Chemical, and Spectroscopic Observations Paving the Way to Exploration
Description
Key Features
- Presents the most current data and information on the mission-relevant characteristics of primitive asteroids
- Addresses the physical, chemical and spectral characteristics of carbonaceous chondritic meteorites and the bearings on successful exploration of their parent asteroids
- Includes chapters on geotechnical properties and resource extraction
Readership
National laboratories, NASA, and universities. Specifically, planetary scientists, cosmochemists, planetary astronomers, astrobiologists, geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, engineers, and space industry professionals
Table of Contents
1. History of Asteroid Missions
2. Petrology of Hydrated Carbonaceous Chondrites
3. Thermal Histories in Carbonaceous Chondrites
4. The Origin and Evolution of Organic Matter in Carbonaceous Chondrites and Links to Asteroid Parent Bodies
5. Reflectance Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Chondrites
6. Compositional Diversity among Primitive Asteroids
7. The Density, Porosity, and Strength Properties of Near-Earth Primitive Asteroids
8. Geotechnical Properties of Asteroids Affecting Surface Operations, Mining, and ISRU Activities
9. Scale-dependent Strength Properties of Regoliths
10. Linking Water-Rich Asteroids to Carbonaceous Chondrites: Implications for Asteroid Space Missions
11. Exploring the Possible Continuum Between Comets and Asteroids
12. Practical Applications of the ARRM Mission Related to ISRU in Support of Human Exploration
13. Other Missions to Asteroids
Product details
- No. of pages: 558
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: July 14, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128133262
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128133255
About the Editor
Neyda Abreu
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