Dynamics and Evolution of Minor Bodies with Galactic and Geological Implications: Proceedings of the Conference held in Kyoto, Japan from October 28 to November 1,1991

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Activities Of Comets Related To Their Aging And Origin....Pages 1-11
A Model Of The Galactic Tidal Interaction With The Oort Comet Cloud....Pages 13-35
Origin Of Oort Cloud Comets In The Interstellar Space....Pages 37-48
Origin Of Short-Period Comets....Pages 49-61
Structure And Evolution Of The Jupiter Family....Pages 63-69
Collective Resonant Phenomena On Small Bodies In The Solar System....Pages 71-89
Dynamics Of Periodic Comets And Meteor Streams....Pages 91-110
Evolution Of Short-Period Meteoroid Streams....Pages 111-127
Historical Variation In The Meteor Flux As Found In Chinese And Japanese Chronicles....Pages 129-142
Episodes Of Terrestrial Geologic Activity During The Past 260 Million Years: A Quantitative Approach....Pages 143-159
Periodicity In The Crater Formation Rate And Implications For Astronomical Modeling....Pages 161-178
The Fundamental Role Of Giant Comets In Earth History....Pages 179-193
Progress In The Elliptic Restricted 3-Body Problem: Asteroids In The 2/1, 3/1 And 1/1 Resonance....Pages 195-205
Asteroid Families:Recent Results And Present Scenario....Pages 207-227
The Ultraviolet Spectra Of Carbonaceous Chondrites....Pages 229-231
Solar Dust Ring Observation At The Total Solar Eclipse In Mexico....Pages 233-235
Short-Period Comets And Apollo-Amor-Aten Type Asteroids In View Of Tisserand Invariant....Pages 237-240
The Charging Processes Of Dust Particles And The Effects Of Lorentz Scattering In The Circum-Solar Dust Band....Pages 241-244
Shock Metamorphism On The Moon....Pages 245-248
Evidence Of Earth Catastrophe By Anomalous Shocked Quartz At The Kit Boundary....Pages 249-253
Hill Stability Of The Planar Three-Body Problem: General And Restricted Cases....Pages 255-260
Invisible Comets On Evolutionary Track Of Short-Period Comets....Pages 261-266
The Evolution Of Groups Of Very Light Stars In The Galaxy....Pages 267-269
Near-Parabolic Cometary Flux In The Outer Solar System....Pages 271-274
Organic Models Of Interstellar Grains....Pages 275-277
Numerical Investigation On The Orbital Evolution of 1:2 Resonant Asteroids Between Jupiter And Saturn....Pages 279-286
Numerical Investigation Of Motions Of Resonant Asteroids In The Three-Dimensional Space....Pages 287-290
Candidates For Families In Apollo-Amor Type Asteroids....Pages 291-293