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Multiple Asteroid Flyby Missions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

David R. Brooks and
William F. Hampshire II
David R. Brooks
Affiliation:
NASA Langley Research Center
William F. Hampshire II
Affiliation:
NASA Langley Research Center

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The use of spacecraft for studying the physical properties of the asteroid belt can be approached in several ways. Certainly the simplest approach is to send a spacecraft into the asteroid belt and measure the effects of the environment encountered; this has the advantage of not requiring a vehicle to be targeted to any particular destination. With such an approach, properties may be obtained for those classes of objects that are populous enough to provide a significant number of encounters within the measurement range of the spacecraft. Unfortunately, the large asteroids do not constitute such a class of objects; the probability of an undirected spacecraft passing within measurement range of an asteroid having a diameter of 1 or more km is negligible.

Information

Type
Part III-Possible Space Missions and Future Work
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 12: Physical Studies of Minor Planets , 1971, pp. 527 - 537
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1971

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