A gravity model for navigation close to asteroids and comets

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 112 I, Issue , 2002, Pages 553-562

  Weeks, Connie J ^a   Miller, James K ^b  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

ASTEROIDS; COMETS; GRAVITY MODEL;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036915602     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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