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Targeting an asteroid: The DSPSE encounter with asteroid 1620 GeographosAccurate targeting of the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE) spacecraft to achieve a 100 km sunward flyby of asteroid 1620 Geographos will require that the ground-based ephemeris of Geographos be well known in advance of the encounter. Efforts are underway to ensure that precision optical and radar observations are available for the final asteroid orbit update that takes place several hours prior to the DSPSE flyby. Because the asteroid passes very close to the Earth six days prior to the DSPSE encounter, precision ground-based optical and radar observations should be available. These ground-based data could reduce the asteroid's position uncertainties (1-sigma) to about 10 km. This ground-based target ephemeris error estimate is far lower than for any previous comet or asteroid that has been under consideration as a mission target.
Document ID
19950054130
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Yeomans, Donald K.
(Jet Propulsion Lab. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA, US, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: In: Spaceflight dynamics 1993; AAS(NASA International Symposium, 8th, Greenbelt, MD, Apr. 26-30, 1993, Parts 1 & 2 . A95-85716
Publisher: American Astronautical Society (Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 84, Pts. 1 & 2)
ISSN: 0065-3438
Subject Category
Astrodynamics
Accession Number
95A85729
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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