Asteroid Threat : Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-earth Objects (9781616149147) (33 page)

Dyson, Freeman,
177
,
231
,
232

Eagle
Moon lander,
224

Earth and Environmental Science Program, NYU,
80

Eastern Mediterranean meteor event,
59
,
70
,
78
–
79
,
134

Economist
(magazine),
134

Einstein, Albert,
45

Encounter with Tiber
(Aldrin and Barnes),
217

Endeavour
shuttle orbiter,
237

European Space Agency (ESA),
58
,
103
,
193
,
194
,
201

European Space Research Institute,
194

Exploration of Mars, The
(
Collier's
article turned book),
152

Exploration of Space, The
(Clarke),
107
,
222

Explorers Club,
132

Falcon 9 rocket,
188

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),
199

Federation of American Scientists,
84
,
214

Feynman, Richard,
177
,
227

Fire in the Sky, A
(film),
118

First Annual Symposium on Space Travel,
149
,
151

Fisher, Osmond,
43

Flash Gordon,
152

Forever Young
(Young),
225

Fort Bliss,
149

Frenn, Darya,
17

Friedman, Louis,
76

From the Earth to the Moon
(Verne),
219

Gagarin, Yuri,
15
,
157
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
199

Galileo,
63

Galileo spacecraft,
170

Gehrels, Tom,
76
,
80
,
184

Giertz, Bo (bishop),
101
–
102

Giorgini, Jon D.,
64
,
146

Glenn, John,
160

Glenn Research Center,
171

Glushko, Valentin,
158

Goals in Space
(Bainbridge),
231
–
32

Goddard, Robert H.,
167

Goddard Space Flight Center,
147

Gold, Robert E.,
55
,
57

Gorbachev, Mikhail S.,
117

Gordon, Richard F.,
168

Great Library at Alexandria,
218

Greenland, explosion over,
72
,
124

Grissom, Gus,
160
,
168

Gulag Archipelago, The
(Solzhenitsyn),
154

Haber, Heinz,
151

Haberman, Clyde,
22

Haggerty, Bruce M.,
80

Hale, Alan,
66

Hale, Edward Everett,
221

Hale, George Ellery,
44

Halley, Edmond,
63
–
64

Halley's Comet,
64
,
99
,
145

Hammer of God, The
(Clarke),
98
,
99
,
101
,
103
,
106
,
125

Harris, Alan,
212

Hartley 2 comet,
195

Harvard College Observatory,
141
,
189

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
76

Hawking, Stephen,
177

Hayabusa spacecraft,
196

Hayden Planetarium,
149
,
153

Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids
(Gehrels),
215

Heaven's Gate cult,
66

Heinlein, Robert A.,
94
,
128

Henson, Carolyn,
230

Henson, Keith,
230

High Frontier, The
(O'Neill),
228

Hoba meteorite,
68

Homer,
92
,
93

House Committee on Science and Technology,
182

Hoyle, Fred,
24
,
34

Hurricane Hunters (of the US Air Force),
176

Hurricane Katrina,
36

Hut, Piet,
56
,
187

Iliad
,
92
,
119

Impact
(TV series),
120

Impact Disaster Planning Advisory Group (IDPAG),
134
,
181

Indian Ocean, explosion over,
70

Indonesia, explosion over,
70

Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences,
145

International Academy of Astronautics (IAA),
206

International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN),
31
,
181

International Astronomical Union (IAU),
23
,
82
,
100

International Conference on Near-Earth Objects,
53
,
79
,
132
.
See also
United Nations (UN), International Conference on Near-Earth Objects, April 1995

International Geophysical Year (IGY),
156
,
167

International NEO Detection Workshop,
83
,
177

international planetary-defense program,
80
,
175
–
216

International Space Station (ISS),
127
,
151
,
221

Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum,
237

Italy, explosion over,
70

Itokawa asteroid,
196

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA),
196

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
21
,
64
–
65
,
95
,
128
,
136
,
141
,
145
,
171
,
186
,
206
,
233
,
237

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,
72
,
73

Johnson, Lindley N.,
87
,
129
,
192
–
93
,
201
,
208

Johnson, Samuel,
72

Johnson Space Center,
171

Jones, Thomas D.,
208
,
224

Jupiter,
131

Kaplan, Joseph,
152

Kaupa, Lt. Douglas,
131

Keldysh, Mstislav,
158

Keller, Gerta,
75
,
80
,
132

Kennedy, John F.,
158
,
161
,
164
,
224

“We choose to go to the Moon” speech,
162
–
63

Kennedy Space Center,
171
,
237

Kepler, Johannes,
63

Khrushchev, Nikita S.,
14
,
158
–
59

Knapp, Michelle,
71
,
78

Korolev, Sergei P.,
158
,
159
,
161

Kotov, Oleg,
14

K-T event,
75
,
132

Kubrick, Stanley,
94

Kuiper Belt,
185

Kuznetsov, Denis,
18

Lake Chebarkul,
29

Lake Huron, explosion over,
72
,
124

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
178

Leaves of Grass
(Whitman),
125

Leonov, Aleksei,
160

Levy, David H.,
40
–
42

Lewis, John,
81
,
82

Ley, Willy,
151

L5 Society,
230
,
231

Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe
(Hoyle and Wickramasinghe),
34

Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program,
140
,
186

Little Prince, The
(Saint-Exupéry),
193

Logsdon, John M.,
163
–
64
,
201

Los Alamos National Laboratory,
81

Los Angeles Times
,
28

Lovell, Bernard, on the Apollo program,
166

Lowell, Percival,
183

Lowell Observatory,
44
,
183

Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS),
184

Lu, Ed,
56
,
136
,
173
,
187
,
201

Lucifer's Hammer
(Niven and Pournelle),
95
,
96
,
106

Lukaszczyk, Agnieszka,
135

lunar base,
169
.
See also
Moon, base

Magellan mission,
170

Main (or Asteroid) Belt,
23
,
67
,
69

Manicouagan crater,
68
,
131

Manning, Gordon,
151

“Man Will Conquer Space Soon” (
Collier's
magazine series),
162

Mariner missions,
170

Mars,
37
,
46

colony,
222

expedition to,
127
–
28

Mars as the Abode of Life
(Lowell),
183

Marsden, Brian,
76
,
80

Marshall Islands fireball,
124

Marshall Space Flight Center,
171

Maslin, Janet,
112
,
114

Mayak accident,
13
–
14
,
30

McCarthy, Todd,
115

McDevitt, Jack,
120

McMillan, Robert S.,
184
,
216

McNamara, Robert S.,
206

Mead, Margaret, on the Apollo program,
166

Medvedev, Dmitry,
23
,
199

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics,
159

Mercury,
37

Meteor
(film),
117

Meteor Apocalypse
(film),
118

Meteor Crater,
35
,
37
,
39
,
107
–
109
,
131
,
138

Meteor Crater Story, The
(Smith),
108
–
109

Meteorites!
(film),
118

meteor showers,
124
–
25

Michel, Helen V.,
49

Michigan, explosion over,
70

Miller, William,
125

Minor Planet Center,
145

Mir
(Russian space station),
159

Missions Authorization and Oversight Group,
180
–
81

MIT,
156

Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids
(Yeomans et al.),
65

Mitigation Panel, National Research Council,
146

Molchanov, Sergei,
198

Moon,
37

base,
169
,
221
–
23
,
226

capture hypothesis,
44
,
45
–
46

helium-3,
234

origin of,
42
–
43
,
67
–
68

Soviet probes,
223

theories of its power,
220
–
21

treaty,
230
,
236
–
37

Moonfall
(film),
120

Morrison, David,
51
–
52
,
57
,
64
,
74
,
76
,
80
,
137
,
142
,
201
,
210
,
215

Mount Palomar Observatory,
40
–
42

Moyer, Michael,
91

Murray, Bruce C.,
141
,
161
,
233

Musk, Elon,
188
,
237

Mutual Assured Destruction,
206

NASA,
75
,
76
,
83
,
85
–
87
,
88
,
103
,
112
,
127
,
128
,
140
,
157
,
164
,
167
–
68
,
171
,
172
,
177
,
188
,
192
,
193
,
205
–
206
,
207
,
226
,
235
,
236

Advisory Council Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense,
208

recommendations,
209
–
10

Asteroid Grand Challenge,
207
–
208

congressional mandate on asteroid detection,
182

lack of a monumentally important mission,
149
,
170

private development,
236

Science Definition Team NEO recommendations,
216

suggested monumentally important mission,
149
–
73

National Academy of Sciences,
56
,
86

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA),
153
,
157

National Geographic Video,
71

National Research Council (NRC),
56
,
86
,
88
,
89
,
146
,
148

planetary-defense conferences,
57
,
141
,
201
,
202
,
206

Survey and Detection Panel,
86
,
146
,
173

National Space Society,
236

Natural History
(Pliny),
61