Asteroid Threat : Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-earth Objects (9781616149147) (32 page)

1620 Geographos (asteroid),
82

253 Mathilde (asteroid),
73

2001: A Space Odyssey
(film),
94
,
95

2012 DA14 (asteroid),
20

433 Eros (asteroid),
57
,
72
,
73
,
81

99942 Apophis (asteroid).
See
Apophis asteroid

Aberdeen Proving Ground,
149

Acraman crater,
68

Across the Space Frontier
(Ryan),
152

Action Team on Near-Earth Objects (Action Team 14),
133
,
181

Aerospace Corporation,
81

A Fire in the Sky
(film),
118

Agnew, Spiro,
168

Ailor, William,
81

Aldrin, Buzz,
164
,
167
,
171
,
217
,
230

ALH 84001 meteorite fragment,
69

Alvarez, Luis,
49
,
98
–
99
,
103

Alvarez, Walter,
48
–
50
,
98
–
99
,
111

Alvarez group,
75
,
84
,
98
,
182

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
84
,
85
,
199
–
205

American Interplanetary Society,
84
,
200

American Museum of Natural History,
68
–
69

American Rocket Society,
84
,
200

Ames Research Center,
52
,
171
,
201

antiballistic missile (ABM) System,
198

antiballistic missiles (ABMs) for planetary defense,
198

Apollo Asteroid 1989FC,
200

Apollo program,
127
,
167
,
168
,
175

Apollo 9 mission,
136

Apollo 10 mission,
225

Apollo 11 mission,
165
,
167
–
68

command module,
164

Apollo 12 mission,
168

Apollo 17
crew,
86
,
234

Apophis asteroid,
22
–
23
,
58
,
87
–
88
,
136
,
140
,
146
,
194

Applewhite, Marshall,
66

Arentz, Robert F.,
50
,
89
,
238

Aristotle,
61

Armageddon
(film),
65
,
112
–
16
,
118
,
135

Armstrong, Neil,
164
,
167
,
171
,
230

Around the Moon
(Verne),
219

Arsenault, Cynda Collins,
143

Arsenault, Marcel,
143

Asaro, Frank,
49

Asimov, Isaac, on the Apollo Program,
166
–
67

Association of Space Explorers,
179
,
181

Asteroid
(film),
119

Asteroid: Earth Destroyer or New Frontier?
(Barnes-Svarney),
65

Asteroid Belt.
See
Main (or Asteroid) Belt

asteroid-defense system,
211
–
12

Asteroid Deflection Research Center,
206

Asteroid Grand Challenge,
207

Asteroids: Deadly Impact
(film),
39
,
71

“Asteroid Structure, Trajectory, and Exploratory Reconnaissance Mission” (ASTER),
146

Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS).
See
ATLAS project

Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response
(report),
180

Atlantis
shuttle orbiter,
112
,
237

ATLAS project,
189
–
91

Baikonur Cosmodrome,
199

Bainbridge, William Sims,
231

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.,
89
,
137
,
188

Balmer, Edwin,
109

Baltimore Sun
,
158

Barnes, John,
217

Barnes-Svarney, Patricia,
65

Barringer, Daniel M.,
108
–
109

Barringer Crater,
108
–
109

Basilevsky, Alexander,
76

Basinger, Jeanine,
115

Baxter, Stephen,
135

Bay, Michael,
65
,
115
–
16

Bay of Pigs,
161

Bean, Alan L.,
168
,
169

Benediktov, Kirill,
144
–
45

Bennett, Adm. Rawson,
156

Big Splat, The
(Mackenzie),
68

Binzel, Richard P.,
53
,
208

Bisei Spaceguard Center,
83

Bissell, Tom,
21
–
22

Bobrowsky, Peter T.,
65

Boehm, Sidney,
110

Bonestell, Chesley,
152

Bong Wie,
206

Bopp, Thomas,
66

Borchininova, Alyona V.,
18

Boslough, Mark B. E.,
80
,
147

Brazil, explosion over,
70
,
124

“Brick Moon, The” (Hale),
221

Briyukova, Larisa V.,
27
,
29

Broad, William J.,
42

Brown, Rep. George E.,
54
,
204
–
205

Bruckheimer, Jerry,
65
,
115

B612 Foundation,
98
,
103
,
136
–
37
,
173
,
187
,
201
,
208

Buck Rogers,
152

Bykovsky, Valery,
160

Caldwell-Moore, Alfred,
139

California Academy of Sciences,
187

California Institute of Technology,
227

California Polytechnic State University,
215

California Science Center,
237

Camacho, Sergio,
181

Canada, explosion over,
70

Canavan, Gregory,
81
,
82

Carpenter, Scott,
160

Carril, Luis Fernandez,
126

Carusi, Andrea,
201

Castro, Fidel,
161

Catalina Sky Survey,
140
,
146
,
185
–
86

Catledge, C. Turner,
156

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
157

Cernan, Gene,
217

Chaffee, Roger,
168

Challenger
shuttle orbiter,
160

Chang'e missions,
196
–
97

Chapman, Clark R.,
55
,
57
,
64
,
76
,
80
,
81
,
136
,
137
,
138
,
142
,
178
–
79
,
187
,
201
,
208

Charania, A. C.,
135
,
215

CHECMATE (Compact High Energy Capacitor Module Advanced Technology Experiment),
213
–
14

Chelyabinsk, Russia,
13
–
33
,
69
,
78
,
181

damage,
19
,
135

meteor explosion over,
16
–
20
,
67
,
123
,
133
,
134
,
141
,
145
,
197
,
225

souvenir sales,
27
–
30

Cheng, Andrew F.,
73

Cherkova, Anzhelika,
29

Chernobyl nuclear power plant,
13
–
14

Chicora, Pennsylvania, explosion over,
72
,
124

Chicxulub crater impact site,
37
–
38
,
48
–
50
,
74
,
75
,
98
,
103
,
123
,
126
,
132
,
181

China National Space Administration,
196

Chinese astronomers,
62

Chinese Moon program,
128
,
197

Citadel planetary defense program,
199

Clarke, Arthur C.,
54
,
58
,
82
,
93
,
94
,
98
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
104
,
105
,
106
,
107
,
138
,
182
,
221
–
24
,
226
–
27

Clementine II space mission,
82
,
99
,
100

Cleveland Plain-Dealer
,
97

Collier's
magazine series,
152
,
153
,
232

Collins, Michael,
164
,
167
,
171
,
230

“Colonization of Space, The” (O'Neill),
227

Columbia
shuttle orbiter,
225

Comet, Revised
(Sagan and Druyan),
65

Comet/Asteroid Impact Hazards, The
(Gold),
57

Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society
(Bobrowsky and Rickman),
65

Comet C/2012 S1 (a.k.a. Comet ISON),
66

Comet Hale-Bopp,
66

Comet ISON (a.k.a. Comet C/2012 S1),
66

comets,
33
–
35
,
62
,
64
,
229

Comets
(Yeomans),
25

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space,
133
,
144
,
181
,
206

Compact High Energy Capacitor Module Advanced Technology Experiment (CHECMATE),
213
–
14

Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization,
17

Congress (US),
86
,
105
,
137
,
146
,
205
,
207
,
213

Conquest of the Moon
(
Collier's
article turned book),
152

Conrad, Charles P.,
168

control of space,
152
–
53

Copernicus,
45
,
62

Cosmic Catastrophes
(Chapman and Morrison),
137

Cosmos
(book: Sagan; TV series),
65

Curiosity Mars mission,
128

d'Alviano, Father Fedele,
70

Darwin, Charles,
36
,
42
,
93

Darwin, George,
42

Decision to Go to the Moon, The
(Logsdon),
163

Deep Impact
(film),
111
,
115
,
118
,
135
,
137
,
138

Deep Space Network (DSN),
21
,
171

Defending Planet Earth
(report),
88
–
89
,
147
–
48
,
205

Defense Support Program 647 satellite,
124

Department of Energy,
178

Department of Planetary Defense (DPD),
172
,
173
,
205
,
238

Deputatskoye, Russia,
27

DE-STAR (Directed Energy Solar Targeting of Asteroids) project,
215

“Diogenes A” study,
179

Discovery program,
72

Diseases from Space
(Hoyle and Wickramasinghe),
24
,
35

Disney, Walt,
30
,
46
,
116
,
141

Disneyland, Tomorrowland theme park,
150

Disturbing the Universe
(Dyson),
231

DLR (German space agency),
211
,
212

Don Quijote mission,
58

Doomsday,
91
,
92
,
107
,
110
,
123

Doomsday Rock
(film),
119

Dragon
spacecraft,
188

Drolshagen, Gerhard,
195

Druyan, Ann,
65

Duke, Charles,
225

Durda, Daniel D.,
55
,
57

Duvall, Robert,
111