Michael Belton is Emeritus Astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, and President of Belton Space Exploration Initiatives, LLC.
Thomas Morgan is a Discipline Scientist in the Office of Space Science at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, District of Columbia.
Nalin Samarasinha is an Assistant Scientist at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Arizona.
Donald Yeomans manages NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office and JPL's Solar System Dynamics Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
Preface; 1. Recent progress in interpreting the nature of the near-Earth
object population W. Bottke, A. Morbidelli and R. Jedicke; 2. Earth
impactors: orbital characteristics and warning times S. R. Chesley and T.
B. Spahr; 3. The role of radar in predicting and preventing asteroid and
comet collisions with Earth S. J. Ostro and J. D. Giorgini; 4. Interior
structures for asteroids and cometary nuclei E. Asphaug; 5. What we know
and don't know about surfaces of potentially hazardous small bodies C. R.
Chapman; 6. About deflecting asteroids and comets K. A. Holsapple; 7.
Scientific requirements for understanding the near-Earth asteroid
population A. W. Harris; 8. Physical properties of comets and asteroids
inferred from fireball observations M. D. Martino and A. Cellino; 9.
Mitigation technologies and their requirements C. Gritzner and R. Kahle;
10. Peering inside near-Earth objects with radio tomography W. Kofman and
A. Safaeinili; 11. Seismological imvestigation of asteroid and comet
interiors J. D. Walker and W. F. Huebner; 12. Lander and penetrator science
for near-Earth object mitigation studies A. J. Ball, P. Lognonne, K.
Seiferlin, M. Patzold and T. Spohn; 13. Optimal interpretation and
deflection of Earth-approaching asteroids using low-thrust electric
propulsion B. A. Conway; 14. Close proximity operations at small bodies:
orbiting, hovering, and hopping D. J. Scheeres; 15. Mission operations in
low gravity regolith and dust D. Sears, M. Franzen, S. Moore, S. Nichols,
M. Kareev and P. Benoit; 16. Impacts and the public: communicating the
nature of the impact hazard D. Morrison, C. R. Chapman, D. Steel and R. P.
Binzel; 17. Towards a program to remove the threat of hazardous NEOs M. J.
S. Belton.
