Dynamics and control problems in the deflection of near-earth objects

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 97 PART 1, Issue , 1997, Pages 613-631

  Hall, Christopher D ^a   Ross, I Michael ^b  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

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