Basic targeting strategies for rendezvous and flyby missions to the near-Earth asteroids

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-22

  Perozzi, Ettore ^a,b   Rossi, Alessandro ^a,c   Valsecchi, Giovanni B ^d  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

^c ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

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EID: 0002552998     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(00)00124-0     Document Type: Article

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