Worlds in Interaction: Small Bodies and Planets of the Solar System: Proceedings of the Meeting “Small Bodies in the Solar System and their Interactions with the Planets” held in Mariehamn, Finland, August 8–12, 1994

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
The Solar System in the Galactic Environment....Pages 1-6
Why We Study the Geological Record for Evidence of the Solar Oscillation About the Galactic Midplane....Pages 7-12
The Statistical Effects of Galactic Tides on the Oort Cloud....Pages 13-18
Encounters of the Sun with Nearby Stars in the Past and Future....Pages 19-23
Star Passages through the Oort Cloud....Pages 25-30
Evolution of the Cometary Cloud Under the Action of Stellar Perturbations....Pages 31-34
Dynamical Evolution of Comets and the Problem of Cometary Fading....Pages 35-40
Origin and Evolution of the Long-Period Comets....Pages 41-44
Orbits of Short Period Comets Captured from the Oort Cloud....Pages 45-50
Polynomial Approximation of Poincaré Maps for Hamiltonian Systems....Pages 51-56
The Provenance and Evolution of Comets....Pages 57-68
On the Aging of Comets....Pages 69-78
On the Importance of Dust in Cometary Nuclei....Pages 79-89
Processing of Cometary Grains at the Nucleus Surface....Pages 91-97
Dust Outflow Velocity and the Gas-to-Dust Ratio in Comets....Pages 99-102
Interpretation of HMC Images by a Combined Thermal and Gasdynamic Model....Pages 103-112
Effects of Shape and Spin on the Tidal Disruption of P/Shoemaker-Levy 9....Pages 113-117
Unusual Comets (?) as Observed from the Hubble Space Telescope....Pages 119-131
The Main Belt as a Source of Near-Earth Asteroids....Pages 133-149
Dynamical Evolution of Neas: Close Encounters, Secular Perturbations and Resonances....Pages 151-164
Long-Term Behavior of the Motion of Pluto Over 5.5 Billion Years....Pages 165-173
Capture of Dust Grains in Exterior Resonances with Planets....Pages 175-178
Symplectic Methods and their Application to the Motion of Small Bodies in the Solar System....Pages 179-183
From Comets to Asteroids: When Hairy Stars Go Bald....Pages 185-201
Modeling of Cometary Evolution by Kinetic Theory: Method and First Results....Pages 203-210
Migration of Small Bodies in the Solar System....Pages 211-214
Near-Earth Asteroids: Surface Structure and Shapes....Pages 215-218
Spin Rates of Asteroids....Pages 219-223
Magnetic Properties of Asteroids from Meteorite Data - Implications for Magnetic Anomaly Detections....Pages 225-231
The Population of Near-Earth Objects Discovered by Spacewatch....Pages 233-242
On the Existence of Small Comets and their Interactions with Planets....Pages 243-249
Possibility of Self-Sustaining Bombardment of Inner Planets....Pages 251-255
Discovery of Very Small Asteroids by Automated Trail Detection....Pages 257-262
Asteroids Approaching the Earth from Directions Around the Sun....Pages 263-266
UESAC - the Uppsala-Eso Survey of Asteroids and Comets....Pages 267-274
Discovery and Rediscovery of Trojan Asteroids....Pages 275-277
The Limitations of NEO-Uniformitarianism....Pages 279-292
Possible Collisions of P/Halley and P/Machholz 1 with Jupiter and the Terrestrial Planets....Pages 293-300
Structures and Hazards in the Neo System....Pages 301-304
IS 2329 Orthos a Dead Coment?....Pages 305-310
Possible Associations of Daytime Fireballs and Minor Planets....Pages 311-316
Orbital Evolution of Asteroids with the Effects of Mutual Gravitational Attraction....Pages 317-320
What can Meteoroid Streams Tell us About the Ejection Velocities of Dust from Comets....Pages 321-326
Radiation Pressure Correction to Meteor Orbits....Pages 327-332
On the Importance of the Poynting-Robertson Effect on Meteoroids....Pages 333-338
Light Scattering by Gaussian Random Particles....Pages 339-342
Are Cratering and Probably Related Geological Records Periodic?....Pages 343-356
Terrestrial Impact Craters: Their Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Impacting Bodies....Pages 357-376
The Impact Cratering Record of Fennoscandia....Pages 377-393
Video observations, atmospheric path, orbit and fragmentation record of the fall of the Peekskill meteorite....Pages 395-404
Impacts into Oceans and Seas....Pages 405-418
Velocity Distribution of Meteoroids in the Vicinity of Planets and Satellites....Pages 419-423
Comets,Meteorites and Atmospheres....Pages 425-432
Evolution, Punctuational Crises and the Threat to Civilization....Pages 433-440
The “Shiva Hypothesis”: Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and the Galaxy....Pages 441-460
A Jupiter Fragmented Comet: Cause of the K/T Boundary Record....Pages 461-466
The Tunguska 1908 Explosion’s Region as an International Park of Studies of the Ecological Consequences of Collisions of the Earth with the Solar System Small Bodies....Pages 467-468
The Delivery of Organic Matter from Asteroids and Comets to the Early Surface of Mars....Pages 469-474
Experiment “Tsarev” and Differentiation of Chondritic Bodies....Pages 475-480
Field-Aligned Current Generation at Plasma Clouds or Bodies with Plasma Shells Moving in Magnetic Fields....Pages 481-486
Conference Summary: Comets....Pages 487-488
Conference Summary: Asteroids....Pages 489-492
Rebuttal of the comments....Pages 493-494
Conference Summary: Meteoroids....Pages 495-498
Back Matter....Pages 499-508