The case for a deep search for Earth’s Trojan asteroids [PDF]
Nature Astronomy, 2019 The existence of Earth's Trojan asteroids is not well constrained and represents a major gap in our inventory of small bodies in near-Earth space. Their discovery would be of high scientific and human interest.
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Review of: "ALR_Sim_tracks - trajectory simulator software to assist the search for favourable trajectories for the exploration of the triple Asteroid 2001-SN263 from the Laser Altimeter point of view" [PDF]
, 2023 P. Martella
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High‐Pressure Carbonaceous Phases as Minerals
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 11-23., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Oliver Tschauner
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Compliant Robotics in Space: A Prospective Review of Soft and Deformable Systems for Space Missions
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Compliant robots are increasingly becoming integral to space exploration due to their adaptability, flexibility, and lightweight design. This article reviews categories such as soft, reconfigurable, and hyper‐redundant robots and their evolving role in enhancing space missions.
Hamed Rahimi Nohooji, Holger Voos
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AsteroidFinder – the space-borne telescope to search for NEO Asteroids [PDF]
International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2010, 2017 This paper presents the mission profile as well as the optical configuration of the space-borne AsteroidFinder telescope. Its main objective is to retrieve asteroids with orbits interior to Earth’s orbit. The instrument requires high sensitivity to detect asteroids with a limiting magnitude of equal or larger than 18.5mag (V-Band) and astrometric ...
Hartl, Michael +6 more
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Mass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Complex organic mixtures are found in many areas of research, such as energy, environment, health, planetology, and cultural heritage, to name but a few. However, due to their complex chemical composition, which holds an extensive potential of information at the molecular level, their molecular characterization is challenging.
Charlotte Mase +5 more
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Earth Trojan Asteroids: A Study in Support of Observational Searches
Icarus, 2000 Observational searches for asteroids orbiting near Earth's triangular Lagrange points face unique obstacles. A population of such asteroids would occupy a large projected area on the sky (possibly hundreds of square degrees) and is not favorably placed with respect to the Sun. Here we examine the properties of synthetic populations of Earth ``Trojans''
Paul Wiegert +4 more
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Searching for Binary Asteroids in Pan-STARRS1 Archival Images
The Planetary Science Journal, 2022 Abstract We developed two different point-spread function (PSF) analysis techniques for discovering wide separation binary asteroids in wide-field surveys. We then applied these techniques to images of main belt asteroids in the 4–60 km size range captured by Pan-STARRS1.
James Ou +2 more
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Enhancing the Resilience of Platinum Group Metal Supply Chains: Mine to (Re)use
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Platinum group metals (PGMs) are critical elements that play a vital role in sustainable energy transition technologies such as catalysts, hydrogen production and use, and electronics. Securing a resilient PGM supply chain would support the current industrial, societal, and economic infrastructure.
Lauren MacDonald +3 more
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A successful search for hidden Barbarians in the Watsonia asteroid family [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2014 Abstract Barbarians, so named after the prototype of this class (234) Barbara, are a rare class of asteroids exhibiting anomalous polarimetric properties. Their very distinctive feature is that they show negative polarization at relatively large phase angles, where all ‘normal’ asteroids show positive polarization.
Paolo Tanga +4 more
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