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On coordinated approach to the problem of asteroid-comet impact hazard

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A review of the current state of investigations into the complex global problem of asteroid-comet hazard (ACH) is presented. Main attention is drawn to a comprehensive analysis of prospects of developing the intra-Russia cooperation of studies on the ACH problem and initiating a working program of solving this problem on the national basis. Special space projects are briefly discussed, aimed to investigate and solve the ACH problem, in particular, the project of a mission of spacecraft with an onboard transponder to a hazardous asteroid (conventionally, asteroid Apophis is chosen as a target).

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Original Russian Text © B.M. Shustov, 2010, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 388–401.

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Shustov, B.M. On coordinated approach to the problem of asteroid-comet impact hazard. Cosmic Res 48, 378–391 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952510050023

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