Preliminary design of feasible athos intercept trajectories

Collection of Technical Papers - 2004 Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 445-452

  Campbell, Eric T ^a   Speckman, Laura E ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ORBITS; PROBABILITY; SPACE RESEARCH; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COLLISION PROBABILITY; DEFINED THREAT (DEFT); NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS (NEO); TIME OF FLIGHT;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 20344404741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-1454     Document Type: Conference Paper

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