In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the classification, geology and exploration of asteroids and meteorites. Topics discussed include meteorites and their asteroidal parent bodies; the diversion and exploitation of ice-rich NEOs using the solar collector; radar characteristics of asteroid 33342 (1998 WT24); asteroid dimensions and the truncated pareto distribution; Hilda asteroids in the Jupiter neighborhood; and asteroid Apophis and 1950 DA.

Shengrong Xie, Fangfang Guo and Yiyi Wu Control Techniques for Gob-Side Entry Driving in an Extra-Thick Coal Seam with the Influence of Upper Residual Coal Pillar: A Case Study

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The Society of Exploration Geophysicists published Reservoir Geophysics, the predecessor of this book, in 1992. This was a time of transition in the geophysical profession and in the petroleum industry, which had suffered a significant downturn in the mid-1980s. With the exception of the months just before and after the first Gulf War, oil prices were low compared with the boom of the late 1970s. Exploration was moving toward more challenging and costly areas — deeper water, deeper targets, more remote locations. Improved recovery in existing fields became an industry imperative <...>

The experimenter is confronted nearly every day with the examination of results from his or her own experiments as well as those of others. There is a need to know the methods by which the data were obtained and what confidence can be placed in the numerical results. Significant aspects of these matters involve the principles and methods of statistics, and the jective of this chapter is to describe the basic ideas of statistics that are relevant to errors of observations and numbers derived from these observations.