BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Books
Papers and Articles
US Congress Hearings and Reports for Congress
UN Publications
Search Groups and Websites
References for Annex B1

In the chapters of this report references are only given for each Table and Graph.For the craters in Annex B-1, references are given at the end of this Bibliography. Annexes C and D themselves include names of relevant websites. Otherwise, reference should be made to the books, papers and web sites listed below.

Books

Bailey ME, Clube SVM & Napier WM, The origin of comets, Pergamon Press, 1990, ISBN 0-08-034858-0

Gehrels T (Ed), Hazards due to Comets and Asteroids, University of Arizona Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8165-1505-0 This covers all aspects of NEOs, comprehensively.

Lewis JS, Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth, Academic Press (includes software disk allowing random simulations of impactor flux to Earth and consequent deaths occurring). 2000. ISBN 0-12-44760-1

Lewis JS, Rain of Iron and Ice, Reading, Mass, Addison-Wesley, 1996

Spencer JR & Mitton J, The great comet crash, Cambridge University Press 1995, ISBN 0-521-48274-7

Steel D, Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 1995, ISBN 0-471-30824-2; 1997, ISBN 0-471- 19338-0

Thomas PJ (Ed), Chyba CF & McKay CP, Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, Springer-Verlag, 1997

Papers and articles

Ball, DJ & Floyd, PJ (1998) Societal Risks; Research Report, available from Risk Assessment Policy Unit, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS

Binzel RP, et al (1999) From the Pragmatic to the Fundamental: The Scientific Case for Near-Earth Object Surveys, Report prepared for Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee of National of the National Academy of Sciences, 10 May 1999

Binzel RP, (2000) The Torino Impact Scale, Planetary and Space Science, 48, 297 Canavan, G H (1994), What can we do about it? AAAS Meeting, San Francisco, February 1994

Canavan, G H (1995), Cost and Benefits of NEO Defences, Planetary Defence Workshop, 1995, see also T Gehrels� book, above

Chapman & Morrison (1994), Impacts on the Earth by asteroids and comets: assessing the hazard, Nature, 367, 33

Clube SVM, Hoyle F, Napier WM, & Wickramasinghe NC (1996), Giant Comets, Evolution and Civilisations, Astrophysics & Space Science, 245,42

Council of Europe, study (1996) Report on detection of asteroids etc, Council of Europe: Doc. 7480, 9 February 1996 Council of Europe: reference motion 1080

European Space Agency�s Operations Centre (ESOC) (1997), Study of a global network for research on NEOs, ESOC Contract No. 12314/97, European Space Agency, www.esa.int/gsp/ (Applications then Page reference 97/A10)

ESOC study (2000); Spaceguard Integrated System for Potentially Hazardous Object Survey, Carusi et al, ESOC Contract No. 13265/98 with report ref D/IM, SGF/Pr#2/Doc-05, 28 April 2000. www.esa.int/gsp/ (Applications then Page reference 98/A15)

Gehrels T (1996) Collisions with Comets and Asteroids, Scientific American, 274, No 3, p34

Grintzer C, (1998) The NEO Impact Hazard and options for mitigation, EUROSPACE Technische Entwicklung GmbH, Potsdam, Germany.

Harris, Alan W (1998a), Evaluation of ground-based optical surveys for NEOs, Planet & Space Sci. 46, 283

Harris, Alan W (1998b), Searching for NEAs from Earth or Space, Highlights of Astronomy, 11A, 257 (Ed: J Andersen for IAU).

Health and Safety Executive (1999): Reducing Risks, Protecting People, Discussion Document. Available from Jean Le Guen, Risk Assessment Policy Unit, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS

Holloway NJ (1997) Tolerability of Risk from NEO impacts, Spaceguard meeting at Royal Greenwich Observatory, 10 July 1997

Jewitt, D (2000), Eyes Wide Shut, Nature 403, 145

Johnson-Freese J & Knox J (2000) Preventing Armageddon: Hype or Reality, JBIS, 53, 173

Lissauer JJ (1999) How common are habitable planets? Nature, 402, p C11, Supp, 2.12.99

Morrison D & Chapman C (1995) The Biospheric hazard of large impacts, Proceedings of Planetary Defence Workshop, 1995

POST Report 81, Safety in Numbers, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK, June 1996

POST Report 126, Near Earth Objects, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK,April 1999

Rabinowitz D, Helin E, Lawrence K & Pravdo S (2000) Reduced estimate of the number of kilometre-sized near-Earth asteroids, Nature, 403, 165

Solem JC (2000) Deflection and Disruption of Asteroids on Collision Course with Earth, JBIS, 53, 180

Steel, D et al (1997), Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey: Valedictory report, Aust. J. Astr. 7 (2): 67

Urias JM et al (1996) Planetary Defence: Catastrophic Health Insurance for Planet Earth Research Paper presented to �USAF 2025�, www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/v3c16/v3c16- 1.htm#Contents

van den Bergh, S (1994) Astronomical Catastrophes in Earth History, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 106, July 1994

Ward S & Asphaug E (2000a) Asteroid Impact Tsunami � a Probabilistic Hazard Assessment, submitted to Icarus

Ward S & Asphaug E (2000b) Impact Tsunami � Eltinan, submitted to Deep Sea Research � Oceanic Impacts, 7 June 2000

Yeomans, D (2000) Small bodies of the Solar System, Nature, 404, 829

US Congressional Hearings and Reports for Congress

Rather JDG, Rahe JH & Canavan G, Summary report of the Near Earth Object Interception Workshop, sponsored by NASA headquarters and hosted by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, August 31, 1992

Proceedings of the Near-Earth Object Interception Workshop (eds. Canavan GH, Solem JC & Rather JDG), Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, LA-12476-C (1993)

Morrison D (chair) (1992), The Spaceguard Survey, Report of NASA International Near-Earth-Object Detection Workshop, January 1992 (Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology) prepared for NASA Office of Space Science and Technology

Shoemaker E (Chair) et al (1995), Report of Near-Earth Objects Survey Working Group, Office of Space Science, NASA

UN Publications

General Assembly Resolutions and International Treaties Pertaining to the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, www.oosa.unvienna.org/treat/treat.html

Near-Earth Objects � The United Nations International Conference, Proceedings, J Remo (Ed), New York Academy of Sciences, ANYAA9 822 1-632, 1997

Report of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, United Nations Publication A/CONF.184/6,Vienna, July 1999, Resolution I.1.c.i, iii and iv

NEO Search Groups and other useful NEO websites, a selection

NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab: Solar Systems Dynamics Site:
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov

Near Earth Object Program:
neo.jpl.nasa.gov

Near Earth Asteroid Tracking:
huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html

NASA/Ames Research Centre:
space.arc.nasa.gov
astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov

Asteroid Fact Sheet, NASA/Goddard Pages
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html

Minor Planet Center:
cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

Minor Planet Ephemeris Service,
cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html

NEO Confirmation Page :
cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/NEO/ToConfirm.html

LINEAR:
www.ll.mit.edu/LINEAR/

LINEAR: Project�s sky coverage plots,
www.ll.mit.edu/LINEAR/skyplots.html

NEAT:
neat.jpl.nasa.gov

Spacewatch Project:
www.lpl.arizona.edu/spacewatch/

Catalina Sky Survey:
www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/

LONEOS:
www.lowell.edu/users/elgb/loneos_disc.html
asteroid.lowell.edu/

The Planetary Society:
planetary.org/

International Astronomical Union (IAU):
www.iau.org

European Asteroid Research Node (EARN):
www.astro.uu.se/planet/earn/

Uppsala observatory:
www.astro.uu.se

Armagh Observatory:
www.arm.ac.uk

Society for Interdisciplinary Studies
www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/sis/

Spaceguard, UK:
ds.dial.pipex.com/spaceguard/

Spaceguard Foundation:
spaceguard.ias.rm.cnr.it/SGF/

Spaceguard Central Node,
spaceguard.ias.rm.cnr.it/index.html

Near Earth Object Dynamics Site, NEODyS:
newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo

Riskpage website, Pisa:
newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/ neodys/neoibo?riskpage:0;main

Spaceguard, Australia:
www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps-seti/ spacegd.html

Spaceguard, Canada:
www.spaceguard.ca/

Klet Observatory:
www.klet.cz/foll.html

Space Protection of the Earth, Third International Conference, 11�15 September, 2000, Evpatoriya, Crimea, Ukraine:
www.snezhinsk.ru/spe2000/

References to major impacts listed in Annex B-1

[1, 4, 7, 12] Impact Craters on Earth, NASA pages
observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/craters/impact_master.html

[2, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14] Terrestrial Impact Craters, Views of the Solar System, CJ Hamilton
www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm

[5] Aorounga Craters
www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/chad2.html

[3] Killer Crater Found, Discovery.com news pages, Larry O�Hanlon,
www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000419/geology_crater.html

[8] Collisions with Comets and Asteroids, T Gehrels, Scientific American,Vol 274, No 3, March 1996, p34; more on Chicxulub:
planetscapes.com/solar/raw/earth/chicxulb.gif
www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/yucatan.html

[10] Chesapeake Bay:
marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/fs49-98/

[11] Roter Kamm, Namibia:
southport.jpl.nasa.gov/pio/srl1/sirc/srl1-roterkamm.gif

[16] Rain of Iron and Ice, Lewis, JS, Helix Books ISBN: 0-201- 48950-3

[17] Wabar Craters,
www.sciam.com/1998/1198issue/1198wynn.html

[18] Tunguska Homepage, University of Bologna pages, Guiseppe Longo
www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/

[19, 20,] Spaceguard UK Report,
ds.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/fr77/more.htm

[21] Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter, NASA Goddard pages, JH King
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html

[22] Eltanin R Grieve in Ann NY Acad Sci, vol 822, p.338, 1997; Kyte et al New evidence on the size and possible effects of a late Pliocene oceanic impact, Science, 241, 63�65, 1988. Papers by Ward S & Asphaug, see Papers and Articles, above

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