Collisional Processes in the Solar System

1. Front Matter

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2. Size-Frequency Distributions of Planetary Impact Craters and Asteroids

   • B. A. Ivanov, G. Neukum, R. Wagner

   Pages 1-34

3. The Meteoroidal Influx to the Earth

   • Zdeněk Ceplecha

   Pages 35-50

4. The Impact Record on Asteroid Surfaces

   • W. F. Bottke Jr., R. Greenberg

   Pages 51-71

5. Cometary Dynamics

   • Harold F. Levison, Martin J. Duncan

   Pages 73-90

6. Variable Oort Cloud Flux due to the Galactic Tide

   • John J. Matese, Kimmo A. Innanen, Mauri J. Valtonen

   Pages 91-102

7. Galactic Triggering of Periodic Comet Showers and Mass Extinctions on Earth

   • Michael R. Rampino

   Pages 103-120

8. The Role of Non-Gravitational Forces in Decoupling Orbits from Jupiter

   • D. J. Asher, M. E. Bailey, D. I. Steel

   Pages 121-130

9. The Cometary Contribution to Planetary Impact Rates

   • H. Rickman, J. A. Fernández, G. Tancredi, J. Licandro

   Pages 131-142

10. Physical Properties of Planet Crossing Objects

    • David Jewitt, Yanga Fernandez

    Pages 143-161

11. Distant Comet Observations

    • K. J. Meech, O. R. Hainaut

    Pages 163-172

12. Long-Term Orbital Evolution of Protoplanets

    • Keiko Yoshinaga, Eiichiro Kokubo, Junichiro Makino

    Pages 173-180

13. Accretional Origin of the Giant Planets and its Consequences

    • Wing-Huen Ip, Julio A. Fernández

    Pages 181-201

14. N-Body Simulations of Moon Accretion

    • S. Ida, E. Kokubo, T. Takeda

    Pages 203-222

15. Volatile Inventory and Early Evolution of the Planetary Atmospheres

    • Mikhail Ya. Marov, Sergei I. Ipatov

    Pages 223-247

16. From the Interstellar Medium to Planetary Atmospheres via Comets

    • Tobias C. Owen, Akiva Bar-Nun

    Pages 249-264

17. Dust Influx to Titan from Hyperion

    • Alexander V. Krivov, Marek Banaszkiewicz

    Pages 265-276

18. Collisional Effects in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt

    • Donald R. Davis, Paolo F. Farinella

    Pages 277-286

19. In Memoriam: Paolo Farinella

    • Mikhail Ya. Marov, Hans Rickman

    Pages 287-288

20. Origin and Evolution of Near Earth Asteroids

    • A. Morbidelli

    Pages 289-302

The exploration of our Solar System is rapidly growing in importance as a scientific discipline. During the last decades, great progress has been achieved as the result of space missions to planets and small bodies - as­ teroids and comets - and improved remote-sensing methods, as well as due to refined techniques of laboratory measurements and a rapid progress in theoretical studies, involving the development of various astrophysical and geophysical models. These models are based, in particular, on the approach of comparative planetology becoming a powerful tool in revealing evolu­ tionary processes which have been shaping the planets since their origin. Comets and asteroids, being identified as remnants of planetary formation, serve as a clue to the reconstruction of Solar System history because they encapsulated the primordial material from which the planets were built up. At the same time, these interplanetary carriers of original matter and mes­ sengers from the past, being triggered by dynamical processes well outside our neighboring space, were responsible for numerous catastrophic events when impacting on the planets and thus causing dramatic changes of their natural conditions. In the crossroads of astronomy and geophysics, recent years have seen a growing understanding of the importance of collisional processes through­ out the history of the Solar System and, therefore, the necessity to get more insight into the problem of interactions of planets and small bodies.

• Accretion
• Cloud
• Orbit
• Planet
• Solar
• Solar System
• Tide
• astronomy

• Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia

  Mikhail Ya. Marov

• Astronomical Observatory, Uppsala, Sweden

  Hans Rickman

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