The statistics of flight opportunities to accessible near-Earth asteroids

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-231

  Christou, Apostolos A ^a  

^a ARMAGH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Flyby; Missions; Near Earth; Rendezvous; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ORBITS; PLANETS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASTEROIDS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0037345663     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(02)00199-X     Document Type: Article

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