On the Approach to Form Internati- onal-Legal Foundations to Ensure Planetary Defense
Protecting the Earth against Collisions with Asteroids and Comet Nuclei, In: A. M. Finkelstein, W. F. Huebner, V. A. Shor (Eds) Proceedings of the International Conference “Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2009”, StP: Nauka, 396–401 (2010)
Keywords: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), international-legal foundations, planetary defense system (PDS), asteroid and comet nucleus impact hazards, an international treaty, principles of ensuring the Earth's defense, security fund of humanity, financial support, development of the system, exploitation of the system, modernization of the system, coordinate the PDS formation and exploitation, under the aegis of the United Nations, an international planetary defense center, regional offices, international space law provisions, PDS formation, PDS management, PDS application, to mitigate hazardous celestial bodies, nuclear devices
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The building of the planetary defense system (PDS) against asteroid and comet nucleus impact hazards will require adequate international legal instruments that may take the form of an international treaty "On the principles of ensuring the Earth's defense against asteroid and comet nucleus impact hazards"