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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Pluto / KBO _ Centaur Missions
Posted by: Alan Stern Oct 3 2019, 11:14 AM
FYI: Centaurs Rising: NASA Eyes Missions to Weird Asteroid-Comet Hybrids https://www.space.com/nasa-centaur-missions-centaurus-chimera.html
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Posted by: Explorer1 Oct 3 2019, 12:54 PM
Two very interesting proposals! How large will the solar panels need to be for Centaurus to get enough power out beyond Jupiter?
Posted by: djellison Oct 3 2019, 03:47 PM
Probably the size of the arrays for some of the other proposals that have headed out that way on solar power.... ELF, for example - https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/45905/15-4603_A1b.pdf
Posted by: Alan Stern Oct 6 2019, 08:42 PM
QUOTE (djellison @ Oct 3 2019, 04:47 PM) 
Probably the size of the arrays for some of the other proposals that have headed out that way on solar power.... ELF, for example - https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/45905/15-4603_A1b.pdf
29P Fragmentation..... http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13164
Posted by: nprev Oct 8 2019, 03:02 AM
Hmm. Wonder how much the violently active nature of 29P will affect the risk evaluation of Chimera.
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