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Informationen zum Autor Patrick Michel is a senior researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), where he leads the Lagrange Laboratory planetary science team at the Côte d'Azur Observatory (Nice, France). He is the author of more than ninety publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Francesca E. DeMeo is a planetary scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of more than forty refereed publications in international journals. William F. Bottke is the director of the Department for Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. He also is currently the director of the Institute for the Science of Exploration Targets (ISET) of NASA's SSERVI program, and is in charge of the Dynamical Evolution Working Group for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. He is the author of more than 150 refereed articles. Klappentext 150 international authorities through more than 40 chapters convey the definitive state of the field by detailing our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites. Most importantly, this volume outlines the outstanding questions that will focus and drive researchers and students of all ages toward new advances in the coming decade and beyond. Zusammenfassung Over the past decade! asteroids have come to the forefront of planetary science. In Asteroids IV nearly 150 international authorities through more than 40 chapters convey the definitive state of the field by detailing our current astronomical! compositional! geological! and geophysical knowledge of asteroids! as well as their unique physical processes.
