"More than forty chapters detail our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites"--Provided by publisher.
Incomplete contents
Part 1. Physical and compositional properties. 1.1. Asteroid composition and physical properties ; 1.2. Populations ; 1.3. Families ; 1.4. Multiple systems -- Part 2. Space missions -- Part 3. Evolutionary processes. 3.1. Dynamical evolution ; 3.2. Differentiation ; 3.3. Physical evolution ; 3.4. Collisions -- Part 4. Ground-based surveys, hazards and future exploration.