Dynamics and Evolution of Minor Bodies with Galactic and Geological Implications - by S Yabushita & J Henrard (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Table Contents.- The Activities of Comets Related to their Aging and Origin.- A Model of the Galactic Tidal Interaction with the Oort Comet Cloud.- Origin of Oort Cloud Comets in the Interstellar Space.- Origin of Short-Period Comets.- Structure and Evolution of the Jupiter Family.- Collective Resonant Phenomena on Small Bodies in the Solar System.- Dynamics of Periodic Comets and Meteor Streams.- Evolution of Short-Period Meteoroid Streams.- Historical Variation in the Meteor Flux as Found in Chinese and Japanese Chronicles.- Episodes of Terrestrial Geologic Activity during the Past 260 Million Years: A Quantitative Approach.- Periodicity in the Crater Formation Rate and Implications for Astronomical Modeling.- The Fundamental Role of Giant Comets in Earth History.- Progress in the Elliptic Restricted 3-Body Problem: Asteroids in the 2/1,3/1 and 1/1 Resonance.- Asteroid Families: Recent Results and Present Scenario.- The Ultraviolet Spectra of Carbonaceous Chondrites.- Solar Dust Ring Observation at the Total Solar Eclipse in Mexico.- Short-Period Comets and Apollo-Amor-Aten Type Asteroids in View of Tisserand Invariant.- The Charging Processes of Dust Particles and the Effects of Lorentz Scattering in the Circum-Solar Dust Band.- Shock Metamorphism on the Moon.- Evidence of Earth Catastrophe by Anomalous Shocked Quartz at the K/T Boundary.- Hill Stability of the Planar Three-Body Problem: General and Restricted Cases.- Hill Stability of the Planar Three-Body Problem: General and Restricted Cases.- The Evolution of Groups of Very Light Stars in the Galaxy.- Near-Parabolic Cometary Flux in the Outer Solar System.- Organic Models of Interstellar Grains.- Numerical Investigation on the Orbital Evolution of 1:2 Resonant Asteroids between Jupiter and Saturn.- Numerical Investigation of Motions of Resonant Asteroids in the Three-Dimensional Space.- Candidates for Families in Apollo-Amor Type Asteroids.