Dynamics and Evolution of Minor Bodies with Galactic and Geological Implications: Proceedings of the Conference held in Kyoto, Japan from October 28 t [Paperback]

Minor bodies in the Solar System, though representing only a small fraction of the mass in the Solar System, may well play a fundamental role in terrestrial evolution.
This book contains investigations of the dynamics and physics of comets, asteroids and meteor streams, and the rather controversial topic of periodic phenomena in the Solar System as signified by geological records, together with several associated developments in celestial dynamics. All these problems are interwoven. This book makes a contribution towards unravelling the nature of the interactions between the Earth and its celestial environment.
Table Contents.- The Activities of Comets Related to their Aging and Origin.- A Model of the Galactic Tidal Interaction with the Oort Comet Cloud.- Origin of Oort Cloud Comets in the Interstellar Space.- Origin of Short-Period Comets.- Structure and Evolution of the Jupiter Family.- Collective Resonant Phenomena on Small Bodies in the Solar System.- Dynamics of Periodic Comets and Meteor Streams.- Evolution of Short-Period Meteoroid Streams.- Historical Variation in the Meteor Flux as Found in Chinese and Japanese Chronicles.- Episodes of Terrestrial Geologic Activity during the Past 260 Million Years: A Quantitative Approach.- Periodicity in the Crater Formation Rate and Implications for Astronomical Modeling.- The Fundamental Role of Giant Comets in Earth History.- Progress in the Elliptic Restricted 3-Body Problem: Asteroids in the 2/1,3/1 and 1/1 Resonance.- Asteroid Families: Recent Results and Present Scenario.- The Ultraviolet Spectra of Carbonaceous Chondrites.- Solar Dust Ring Observation at the Total Solar Eclipse in Mexico.- Short-Period Comets and Apollo-Amor-Aten Type Asteroids in View of Tisserand Invariant.- The Charging Processes of Dust Particles and the Effects of Lorentz Scattering in the Circum-Solar Dust Band.- Shock Metamorphism on the Moon.- Evidence of Earth Catastrophe by Anomalous Shocked Quartz at thel¬