Dawn: A mission in development for exploration of main belt asteroids Vesta and Ceres

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 605-616

  Rayman, Marc D ^a   Fraschetti, Thomas C ^a   Raymond, Carol A ^a   Russell, Christopher T ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DATA ACQUISITION; ORBITS; SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTEROIDS; CERES; COMPLEMENTARY BODIES; DAWN; EARTH-ORBITING MISSIONS; VESTA;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 33646191210     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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