Near-Earth Objects: The United Nations Conference on Near-Earth Objects (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

This text aims to put into perspective recent discoveries in the natural sciences that describe the part played by Earth-crossing asteroids and comets in the extinction of a large range of species. These perspectives include the effects of past terrestrial impacts contained within the fossil record, current astronomical observations of near-Earth objects (NEOs), and future observations and exploration missions to understand