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Asteroid Grand Tour

nprev View Member Profile	Apr 7 2007, 01:31 AM Post #1
Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8791 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602	This article from JPL describes recent efforts to derive a main belt multi-asteroid mission trajectory...any of you orbitsmiths out there have some early thoughts/observations? -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.

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nprev Asteroid Grand Tour Apr 7 2007, 01:31 AM

tasp I don't know if this is original with me, but ... Apr 7 2007, 03:10 AM

elakdawalla I thought that article was interesting but wish th... Apr 7 2007, 03:55 AM

nprev Yeah, Emily. It was notably short of specific targ... Apr 7 2007, 05:44 AM

edstrick Classic example of a press release about a science... Apr 7 2007, 08:02 AM

SFJCody The trajectory details for the 2006 GTOC 1 are her... Apr 7 2007, 09:45 AM

djellison LOVE it... EVEEEJSJA EVVEEVVEVEJSJA EEVEEJSA Ma... Apr 7 2007, 09:57 AM

nprev 30-year mission duration for those long hauls usin... Apr 7 2007, 01:45 PM

Greg Hullender Any idea what "v-infinity" means in the ... Apr 7 2007, 04:50 PM

elakdawalla Last year's was a very different challenge. F... Apr 7 2007, 05:49 PM

JRehling I'll echo my concept of a retrograde solar orb... Apr 7 2007, 11:39 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (JRehling @ Apr 7 2007, 11:39 PM) I... Jan 7 2017, 02:52 PM

djellison Your flyby velocity would be ENORMOUS though - you... Apr 8 2007, 06:52 AM

ugordan Well, DI's encounter with Tempel-1 was 10 km/s... Apr 8 2007, 11:22 AM

nprev It may be that some variation of JR's idea was... Apr 8 2007, 03:07 PM

JRehling QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 8 2007, 08:07 AM) It m... Apr 17 2007, 04:40 PM

Floyd The four asteroid tour (each a different type) is ... Apr 8 2007, 06:00 PM

nprev Yeah...seems as if the prime filter would be choos... Apr 8 2007, 06:07 PM

Greg Hullender With only four asteroids, I don't the choice o... Apr 8 2007, 07:11 PM

nprev I think things like minimizing propellant consumpt... Apr 9 2007, 12:53 AM

Floyd Greg, you are correct in that the traveling salesm... Apr 9 2007, 01:44 AM

Greg Hullender As I said, it's not an easy problem, but that... Apr 9 2007, 03:15 AM

tasp Has anyone gone back and looked at the Voyager pat... Apr 9 2007, 01:59 PM

JKreider Retrograde Asteroid Fly-by Trajectories, RAFT I... Sep 29 2009, 07:20 PM

SFJCody Very interesting work. I wonder if it would be wor... Sep 29 2009, 07:44 PM

Holder of the Two Leashes Such impactors would be excellent for spectral stu... Sep 29 2009, 09:10 PM

Phil Stooke "roughly 2,200 asteroids within .1 au." ... Jan 7 2017, 06:33 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 7 2017, 07:33 PM... Jan 7 2017, 07:32 PM

JRehling Certainly it would be desirable to plan the trajec... Jan 7 2017, 08:16 PM

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