Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7065, 2005, Pages 177-178

  Lu, Edward T ^a   Love, Stanley G ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GRAVITATION;

ASTEROIDS; EARTH-BOUND ASTEROIDS;

SPACECRAFT;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; MASS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT;

RUMEX;

EID: 27744553791     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/438177a     Document Type: Article

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