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Index A Antarctica 12 anthropology 25 abyssal impact structure 61 apocalyptic 108, 109 accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon Apollos asteroid group 175 method 269 archaeological 26 acid rain 16, 220, 265 –, record 72, 465 acidification 220 –, research 73 acquisition 203 archaeology 25, 71 activity architecture 72 –, of 14C 297 Argentina 30–33 –, of 39Ar 291 Argentine Pampas 33 adaptation 439 art 76 adaptivity 426 artifact 73 aerial photographic survey 309, 313, 317 asteroid 18, 145, 175, 225, 233, 254, 303, 479 aerolito 347 –, 1997 XF11 461, 505–508, 517 aerosol 127, 220 –, 1997 XR2 517 affective thinking 377 –, 1999 AN10 508 age distribution 4 –, 2000 SG344 509, 510, 517 agent-specific approach 410 –, 2002 MN 510 agriculture 18 –, 2002 NT7 510 Agro Pontino 431 –, 2003 DW10 517 air –, 2003 QQ47 516 –, blast 15–17, 212, 213, 216, 422, 429, 451, 455 –, 2004 AS1 511, 513, 515, 517 –, burst 32, 46, 145, 150, 423 –, 2004 FU162 517 –, temperature 282 –, 2004 MN4 515–517 Akkadian Empire 34 –, 2004 VD17 517 Alaska 248, 251–253 –, belt 176 Aleutians 251 –, deflection 170 Alice Springs 31 –, diameter 235 Allende 336 –, impact 155, 233–235, 369, 471, 523 all-risk coverage 472 –, impact hazard 145 Alps 431 –, Mathilde 253 299 alternative energy source 442 –, observation program 531 altruistic community 365 astrology 74, 75 American National Academy of Sciences 160, 501 Astronomical Unit 204 Amors asteroid group 175 astronomy 76, 160, 521 Amsterdam 473 astrophysical Anfinogenov spindle 323 –, observation 190 Aniene 431 –, process 408 annual growth indices 106 Atens asteroid group 175 Antarctic ozone hole 234, 235 Atlantic 247, 473 534 Index atmosphere 13, 54, 219, 225, 235, 277 Calcutta 473 atmospheric caldera 126 –, anomaly 346 California 253 –, impact 280 Cambrian 145 –, pollution 403 Campo del Cielo 30 –, radiation 281 Canada 253 –, temperature 238 Cando 336 AU (see Astronomical Unit) Canterbury 449 Australia 10, 12, 31 carbon isotope study 17 automated survey 206 Carthage 72 Cassini-Huygens mission 461 B cataclysmic –, eruption 126 backscattering 196 –, event 46 Baker nuclear test 217 Catalina 206 Baku 331 –, sky survey 147 Baltic Sea 267–269 catalyst 234 Bangladesh 473, 527 Catania 432 Barringer catastrophe 427, 454, 465 –, Crater 14, 18, 211 catastrophic event 225 –, impact event 14 cauldron 332–334 Barrington 335 celestial object 71 basaltic achondrite 9 CFC (see chloro-fluoro carbon) Bavarian Crater Field 36 Chaco Canyon 73 Bayes’ theorem 385 Cheko Lake 305, 307, 309 Bayesian decision analysis 385 chemical perturbation 227 Bellinghausen Sea 38 Chernobyl 401, 405 Belluno 429 Chesapeake 12 Bethlehem Star 76 –, structure 12 Bhopal 401 Chi Chi earthquake 528 Bible 78 Chicxulub 3, 4, 7, 9, 15, 19, 214, 216, 218, 259, 335, biblical quotes 109 473 biodiversity 439 –, crater 175, 450 biological extinction, indirect effects of 221 –, impact 450 biosphere 13, 17 –, impactor 212 Black Death 490 Chiemgau 36 bolide 150, 158, 228, 291, 323 Chile 248, 251 Bolivia 36 China 105, 528 Bologna 435 chloride 231, 232 bomb 8 chlorine 227, 231–233 boundary 265, 383 chloro-fluoro carbon 232 bounded rationality 369 chondrite 292, 294, 295, 298 breccia 6, 8, 11 chondritic material 298 bright night phenomenon 309, 311, 331 cinema 79, 80 bromide 231 city 496 bromine 227, 233 civil bronze age 95, 272 –, complex system 428 bulk density 190, 191 –, society 419, 424 Burckle Crater 61, 62 civilization-killing impact 156 burial 17 climate 265, 403 –, change 124, 125 C –, system 280 climatic effect 277, 280 CAI (see comet-asteroid impact) Club of Rome 495 Index 535 coastal city 456 –, mechanics 7 Coconino sandstone 10 –, rate 5 coesite 9, 10 Cretaceous 145, 225, 419, 450 cognitive psychology 369 Cretaceous-Tertiary collapse 427 –, boundary 3, 9, 11, 12, 15, 59, 151, 259, 265, collision 203 296, 383 –, possibility computation 203 –, extinction 212, 219 Colombia 499 –, impact 19, 151, 225, 282, 324 comet 145, 175, 225, 479, 303 –, event 218 –, -asteroid impact 123, 136, 138, 399, 400, critical nucleus 345 408, 411, 413, 437–440, 444 crust 4 –, -asteroid impact hazard 399, 408 crystalline rock 7 –, -asteroid impact hazard threat 136 C-type asteroid 299 –, -asteroid impact hazard scale event 438 cultic activity 266 –, debris 105 Cumbre Vieja volcano 133, 134 –, disruption 193 –, fragmentation 193 D –, impact 54 –, -planet collision 450 damage 421 –, Shoemaker-Levy 9 150, 459 –, potential assessment 474 Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by debris 248, 282 Radiowave Transmission 198 decision making 375 cometary –, process 369 –, impact 335 Deep Impact mission 149, 160, 198, 530 –, nuclei 195, 198 deep-sea core 12 –, showers 5 deep-water wave height 457 comet-planet collision 450 deflection 154, 155, 208 Committee on Space Research 527, 529–531 dendrochronology 111 Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space density 190 525 Department of Energy 159 communication 358, 499 destruction 150 –, channel 426, 427 destructive impact event 3 comparative threat evaluation 405 devastation 212 complex system 424, 426 –, local 212 complexity 424, 434 –, regional 212 compression wave 251 developing country 527 computer simulation 458 diamond 9 condensation nuclei 230 diaplectic glass 9 CONSERT (see Comet Nucleus Sounding diffusive resonance 177, 181 Experiment by Radiowave Transmission) disaster cooperation 358 –, management 154, 161 coordination 358 –, mitigation 410, 531 Coquimbo 260 –, plan 464 corrupted air 112 –, planning 449, 454, 461 cosmic –, prevention 499 –, hazard 454 –, priority 414 –, impact 25, 453 –, simulation 454–456 cosmogenic tsunami 260 –, vector 356 COSPAR (see Committee on Space Research) Disaster Management Research Center 364 counterfactual 362 disruption 194 country social system 427 disturbance event 265 crater 6–8, 95, 150, 213, 268, 269, 281 Doctors Without Borders 400 –, field 32 Don Quijote 209 cratering 265 Dow Jones Industrial Average 486 536 Index dust 112, 127, 151, 220, 283, 403 entry phase 320 –, loading 219 environmental dynamic hazard risk assessment 391 –, damage 16 dynamical –, downturn 105, 111 –, origin of near-Earth object 176 –, effect of impact 498 –, system 426 –, perturbation 17 dynasty 105 –, process 405 –, stress 277 E –, threat 203 epicenter 260, 291 early Eros 149 –, detection 203 erosion 248 –, historic culture 72 eruption 107, 125, 129 –, life 13 ESA (see European Space Agency) –, warning 497 escape velocity 226 Earth 226, 227, 419 Estonia 29, 265–267 –, -colliding orbit 209 ethnographic 73 –, -crosser 175 Euphrates River 35, 91, 97 –, -crossing orbit 175 Eurasian plate 90 –, environment variable 411 European Near Object Search Project 497 –, radius 205 European Space Agency 148, 198, 208, 463 –, science 18 evolution 179, 225 Earth Impact Database 27, 450 explosion 303, 332, 473 earthquake 135, 151, 214, 252, 265, 401, 406, 458, –, -generated tsunami 253 474, 483 –, time 316 –, magnitude 260 explosive volcanism 406 ecliptic comet 179 extinction 3, 18, 265 ecological footprint 437 –, event 3 economic 420 –, -level event 527 –, consequence 479 extra-terrestrial impact 254 economy 278, 481, 491 eyewitness 314 education 499 Egypt 72 F ejecta 8, 16, 151, 213, 333, 422 –, blanket 215 FAO (see Food and Agriculture Organization) –, deposition 215 fauna 14, 17 –, plume 216 Federal Emergency Management Agency 155 –, rain back 218 feeling 374 –, time of arrival 216 feldspar 9, 10 ejection 7, 304 Fennoscandia 27 –, angle 230 financial disaster 490 El Chichon 18 fire 473 El Hierro 134 fireball 151, 213, 216, 226, 227, 346, 423, 429 El Niño Southern Oscillation 125 –, phase 320 ELE (see extinction-level event) firestorm 151 electro-magnetic pulse 423, 429 flash flood 529 Eltanin 38 flexibility 426 emergent order 424 flood 473 emotion 374 –, comet impact 58, 60 EMP (see electro-magnetic pulse) –, mythology 47 engineering –, myth 48, 60 –, design 465 flora 17 –, technique 456 Food and Agriculture Organization 400 ENSO (see El Niño Southern Oscillation) food security 441 Index 537 forest good governance 444 –, devastation 310–312 Gosses Bluff 10 –, fire 286 Gran Canaria 132 forewarning 393 Gran Chaco 43–46 Foschini granitic rock 10 –, hypersonic flow 321 graphite 9 –, model 323 Graphite Peak 12 fossil gravitational force 231 –, fuel 439 gravity survey 100 –, record 225 GRD (see globally relevant disaster) free energy 345 great flood 46 frequency 347 –, myth 46–48 fresh water resource 439 Great Kanto Earthquake 135 Fucino 431 Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake 456, 465 Fuerteventura 132 Greece 72 fused glass 9 greenhouse effect 265 Greenland GISP2 ice core 127, 135 G GRIP ice core 116 gross domestic product 135, 485 gabbroic anorthosite 229 growth reduction 106 GDP (see gross domestic product) Guatemala City 483 Gee-Gee (see global geophysical event) Gelasian stage 25 H geochemical data 292 geographical location 458 hailstone 343 geologic halide ion 231 –, process 7, 18 Halifax 473 –, record 3 –, harbour 253 geology 7 Halley’s Comet 298 geophysical Halley-type comet 179, 184 –, anomaly 4, 11 halogen 227, 230, 231 –, cycle 401 Han 105 –, process 408 Hawaii 40, 130 geophysics 11 Hayabusa mission 198, 530 GGE (see global geophysical event) hazard 399, 452, 525 Gibeon 335 –, level 392 Gilgamesh 50 –, risk assessment 383, 386, 392 Giordano Bruno Crater 449 –, warning system 466 glass –, research 161 –, melt 33 heat 282 –, particle 8 –, flow 335 global Heaven’s Gate cult 82 –, consequence 218 Henbury 31 –, cooling 150 –, crater field 31 –, ecological disaster 265 Hidalgo mission 209 –, environmental crisis 145 high-frequency gee-gee 134 –, environmental
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