Asteroids and comets

Small-body science, sample return, planetary defense and resource prospecting.

Scope

• Small body populations and their orbits
• Rendezvous, touchdown and sample acquisition
• Planetary defense and kinetic impact deflection
• Composition and resource potential
• Navigating in a very weak gravity field

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.