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.

    Author(s):Gibbings, Alison, Vasile, Massimiliano ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8302-6465, Watson, Ian A., Hopkins, John-Mark and Burns, David
    Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Poster)
    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:14 Sep 2019 01:50
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44145
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