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Comet coma sample return via Giotto IIA comet coma sample return is possible with a low-cost flyby mission. Collecting coma materials and returning them to earth can be accomplished in a free-return trajectory. Intact capture of coma dust, preserving the cometary dust mineralogy, is possible at low encounter speeds. Samples from a known cometary source can then be compared with the wealth of information on meteorites and interplanetary dust. Sample return via Giotto II is a unique, low-cost NASA/ESA cooperative opportunity. With ESA providing the Giotto spacecraft and payload and NASA the sample return capability, first-class science can be accomplished at a very low cost for both NASA and ESA. This paper focuses on the sample return aspects, including sample return objectives, sample collection techniques, experimental work to verify collection concepts, and some of the characteristics of the cometary targets for sample return.
Document ID
19860025655
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Tsou, P.
(California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States)
Brownlee, D. E.
(Washington, University Seattle, United States)
Albee, A. L.
(California Institute of Technnology Pasadena, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1985
Publication Information
Volume: 38
ISSN: 0007-084X
Subject Category
Astronautics (General)
Accession Number
86A10393
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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