EES 480: Seminar - Asteroid Impacts and the Terrestrial Biosphere

Links - Introduction to asteroids at Ohio State (.pdf)
Chaos and stability of the solar system (.pdf)
Did Celestial Chaos Kill the Dinosaurs? (.pdf)
Report of the Task Force on potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects
The Exploration of Near-Earth Objects at NAP
Meteorite Magazine
Impact Event at Wikipedia
The Great Impact Debate
The Torino Impact Hazard Scale
Nasa's Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards Program
Nasa's Near Earth Object Program
Earth Impact Database
Report of the Task Force on potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects
Solar System Collisions (simulation)
The USGS Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater Project
The Effects of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater on the Geological Framework and Correlation of Hydrogeologic Units of the Lower York-James Peninsula, Virginia (USGS Professional Paper 1612)
The Effects of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater on the Geologic Framework and the Correlation of Hydrogeologic Units of Southeastern Virginia, South of the James River (USGS Professional Paper 1622)
Nasa's Deep Impact Mission
Reading list - Death Stars, Ecology, and Mass Extinctions (.pdf)
Ground Water in Freshwater-Saltwater Environments of the Atlantic Coast, USGS Circular 1262 (.pdf)
Coring the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Drilled (.pdf)
Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Deep Drilling Project Completes Coring (.pdf)

Chaos and stability of the solar system
Did Celestial Chaos Kill the Dinosaurs?
Surviving Armageddon (Ch. 2: Defending the Earth) (If you're requesting this NetLibrary book from off-campus, you'll be prompted for an email user name/password)
On the Definition of the Term 'Meteoroid' (.pdf)
Report of the Task Force on Potentially Hazardous Near Earth Objects (.pdf)
The Effects of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater on the Geologic Framework and the Correlation of Hydrogeologic Units of Southeastern Virginia, South of the James River (.pdf)
Multiple impacts across the K T boundary (.pdf)

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Last revised: April 17, 2007