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FIGURE CAPTIONS

Figure 1: North Sea flood of 31 January 1953. The image shows the
devastation wrought by the flood at Oude-Tonge, on the island of Goeree-
Overflakkee in the South Netherlands. Image from Wikipedia Commons.

Figure 2: Climate change: an example of a slow acting `unnatural' natural
catastrophe. Illustrated by the record of mean annual temperatures
recorded at Armagh Observatory from 1796 to 2009. Image credit: Armagh
Observatory.

Figure 3: Armagh Observatory risk matrix. The darkest colour represents a
red 'high' risk; white represents a yellow 'medium' risk; and grey
represents a 'green' low risk. Image credit: Armagh Observatory.

Figure 4: Location on the Frequency-Impact plane of various high-
consequence
risks facing the United Kingdom. This is not the full range of possible
risks to the UK, but the location of each broad category of threat
nevertheless indicates the perceived risk that must be managed. Image
credit: Cabinet Office National Risk Register, ї Crown copyright 2008.

Figure 5: F-N criteria for societal risk. Image credit: Figure adapted
from Figure D1 of UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publication
'Tolerability of Risk' (1992). After Nigel Holloway (1997 Spaceguard
Meeting, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge).

Figure 6: Death of the dinosaurs. The painting by astronomer Don Davis
shows
pterosaurs at the instant of collision of a 10-km diameter asteroid with
the Earth 65 million years ago, a catastrophe that is widely believed to
have led to the mass extinction of species around this time, identified
with the Cretaceous-Tertiary ('K/T') geological boundary. Image credit:
Don Davis, NASA.

Figure 7: Bombarded Earth, showing sites of identified, highly probable and
probable impact craters as at 2010 May 16. Image credit: David Rajmon,
Impact Database 2010.1. Online at http://impacts.rajmon.cz.

Figure 8: Left: Composite image of the nucleus of Halley's comet taken
during the Comet Halley encounter of 1986 March 13-14. Halley's comet is
approximately 15 km long and 8 km wide. Image credit: H.U. Keller, Halley
Multicolour Camera, MPAe; ESA/Giotto. Right: Mosaic of the northern
hemisphere of the near-Earth asteroid Eros, taken by the NASA Near-Earth
Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR-Shoemaker) spacecraft on 2000 February 29. Eros
is approximately 34 km long and 11 km wide. Image credit: Johns Hopkins
University, Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA/NEAR-Shoemaker.

Figure 9: Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. Comet D/1993 F2
(Shoemaker-Levy 9) broke into more than 20 fragments which collided with
Jupiter during the period 1994 July 16-22. The impacts produced long-
lived atmospheric 'scars' visible from Earth. This image of Jupiter with
the Hubble Space Telescope Planetary Camera shows five large impact sites
and three small ones, ranging in size from several hundred kilometres up to
Earth-size. Image credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Figure 10: Left: Fall of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite on 1947 February 12,
from the painting in the Russian Academy of Sciences. Image courtesy Yu. A.
Shukolyukov. Right: Totem pole erected close to the Tunguska 'ground
zero'. According to mythology, Agby is the Siberian 'god' who brings fire
to the forest.