The terminal navigation of the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft during its flyby of asteroid 433 Eros on December 23, 1998 involved coordinated efforts to determine the heliocentric orbits of the spacecraft and Eros and then to determine the relative trajectory of the spacecraft with respect ot Eros.


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    Title :

    Estimating the Mass of Asteroid 433 Eros During the Near Spacecraft Flyby


    Contributors:
    Yeomans, D. (author) / Antreasian, P. (author) / Cheng, A. (author) / Dunham, D. (author) / Farquhar, R. (author) / Gaskell, R. (author) / Giorgini, J. (author) / Helfrich, C. (author) / Konopliv, A. (author) / McAdams, J. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1999-02-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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