Threat and the Opportunity of Asteroids and Other Near-Earth Objects Hearing Before the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives

Discusses: NASA funding levels; threat from long-period comets; inter-organizational & international cooperation; asteroid risk implications; dinosaur extinction; resources extraction; & statistical analysis of asteroid risk. Witnesses: Clark Chapman, Inst. Scientist, Space Studies Dept.; Southwest Research Inst.; Carl Pilcher, Science Director, Solar System Exploration, NASA; Gregory Canavan, Senior Scientist, Los Alamos Nat. Lab.; William H. Ailor, Director of the Center for Orbital & Reentry Debris Studies, The Aerospace Corp.; John Lewis, Prof. of Planetary Sciences, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona; & Pat Dasch, The Nat. Space Soc. Charts & Tables.Rohrabacher, Dana is the author of 'Threat and the Opportunity of Asteroids and Other Near-Earth Objects Hearing Before the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives' with ISBN 9780756715359 and ISBN 0756715350.