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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cometary and Asteroid Missions _ 24 Themis a possible new candidate for a mission?

Posted by: antipode Oct 12 2009, 11:17 AM

Mods, please remove this if its been mentioned elsewhere.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009DPS....41.3205C

Water seems to be popping up everywhere.

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Posted by: ngunn Oct 12 2009, 08:22 PM

QUOTE (antipode @ Oct 12 2009, 12:17 PM)

Water seems to be popping up everywhere.

Nice free paper on that subject: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/classes/ge133/reading/ppv_preprints/sec8-8.pdf

Posted by: TonyF Nov 1 2009, 12:56 PM

yeah I was thinking it would be a mission, is anyone working on it?

Posted by: Hungry4info Nov 1 2009, 01:08 PM

I'm not sure I understand why Themis would be a good target for a mission. It has water, yes, but so do a lot of other solar system bodies. While Themis may be interesting, I would think it's a bit far down the list of mission targets.

Posted by: vjkane Nov 1 2009, 09:15 PM

A mission to a water rich asteroid (in addition to Dawn's visit to Ceres) is a high priority for the Small Bodies science community.