Laser ablation for the effective deflection, exploration and exploitation of asteroids
Gibbings, Alison and Vasile, Massimiliano and Watson, Ian A. and Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David (2012) Laser ablation for the effective deflection, exploration and exploitation of asteroids. In: Astrobiology Science Conference 2012, 2012-04-16 - 2012-04-20.
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Abstract
Any asteroid-to-Earth impacting event could result in the wide spread, a mass extinction of life. To address this risk, laster ablation is being investigated as a justifiable and achievable technique for the successful mitigation and deflection of asteroids.
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Gibbings, Alison, Vasile, Massimiliano ![]() | Item type: | Conference or Workshop Item(Poster) |
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ID code: | 44145 |
Keywords: | laser ablation, asteroid deflection, asteroid exploitation, asteroid exploration, Mechanical engineering and machinery, Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology |
Subjects: | Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery Technology > Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Technology and Innovation Centre > Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of Photonics |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 19 Jun 2013 10:07 |
Last modified: | 15 Feb 2021 02:28 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44145 |
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