Prospects of a New L5 Trojan Flyby Target for the Lucy MissionOPEN ACCESS 

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Luis E. Salazar Manzano, David W. Gerdes, Kevin J. Napier, Hsing Wen Lin (林省文), Fred C. Adams, Tessa Frincke, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll and John Spencer The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 9,…

Exploring organic compound preservation through long-term in situ experiments in the Atacama desert and the relevance for MarsOPEN ACCESS 

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Felix Leo Arens, Jenny Uhl, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Cornelia Karger, Kai Mangelsdorf, Christof Sager, Alessandro Airo, Bernardita Valenzuela, Pedro Zamorano & Dirk Schulze-Makuch Scientific Reports, Volume 15, article number 29957, Published: 15 August 2025 LINK (OPEN…

Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraftOPEN ACCESS 

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Abraham Loeb, Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl Draft version July 30, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to arrive at a distance of 53.56(±0.45) million km (0.358 ± 0.003 au) from Jupiter…

The Feasibility of a Spacecraft Flyby with the Third Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS from Earth or MarsOPEN ACCESS 

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Atsuhiro Yaginuma, Tessa Frincke, Darryl Z. Seligman, Kathleen Mandt, Daniella N. DellaGiustina, Eloy Peña-Asensio, Aster G. Taylor, Michael C. Nolan Submitted to AAS Journals, draft version July 22, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We investigate the…

Design of an in-situ science mission to a Jupiter Trojan

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Michael Khan, Olivier Witasse, Waldemar Martens, Arnaud Boutonnet LINK Planetary and Space ScienceAvailable online 4 December 2022, “The NASA mission Lucy, launched in 2021, will perform flybys at several Jupiter Trojan asteroids. The logical next…

Physical Considerations for an Intercept Mission to a 1I/’Oumuamua-like Interstellar ObjectOPEN ACCESS 

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Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb, Amaya Moro-Martin, Mark Elowitz, Abigail White, Wesley Watters, Gary Melnick, Richard Cloete, Jonathan Grindlay, Frank Laukien accepted for publication in Journal of Astronomical InstrumentationDraft version November 7, 2022 PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…

Interstellar Object Accessibility and Mission DesignOPEN ACCESS 

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Benjamin P. S. Donitz, Declan Mages, Hiroyasu Tsukamoto, Peter Dixon, Damon Landau, Soon-Jo Chung, Erica Bufanda, Michel Ingham, Julie Castillo-Rogez Accepted at IEEE Aerospace Conference LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Interstellar objects (ISOs) are fascinating and under-explored…

Constraining the Interiors of Asteroids Through Close EncountersOPEN ACCESS 

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Jack T Dinsmore, Julien de Wit This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in MNRAS following peer review PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Knowledge of the interior density distribution of an asteroid…

Acquisition and Preservation of Remanent Magnetization in Carbonaceous Asteroids

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Samuel W. Courville, Joseph G. O’Rourke, Julie C. Castillo-Rogez, Roger R. Fu, Rona Oran, Benjamin P. Weiss & Linda T. Elkins-Tanton Nature AstronomyPublished: 13 October 2022 LINK “The solar nebula sustained a strong magnetic field…

Meteoroids detection with the LUMIO lunar CubeSat

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F. Topputo, G. Merisio, V. Franzese, C. Giordano, M. Massari, G. Pilato, D. Labate, A. Cervone, S. Speretta, A. Menicucci, E. Turan, E. Bertels, J. Vennekens, R. Walker, D. Koschny IcarusAvailable online 24 August 2022,…

Science Goals and Mission Concept for a Landed Investigation of MercuryOPEN ACCESS 

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Carolyn M. Ernst, Nancy L. Chabot, Rachel L. Klima, Sanae Kubota, Gabe Rogers, Paul K. Byrne, Steven A. Hauck II, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, Ronald J. Vervack Jr., Sébastien Besse, David T. Blewett, Brett W….

Science Drivers for the Future Exploration of Ceres: From Solar System Evolution to Ocean World ScienceOPEN ACCESS 

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Julie Castillo-Rogez, Marc Neveu, Vassilissa Vinogradoff, Kelly E. Miller, Michael M. Sori, Federico Tosi, Britney Schmidt, Jennifer E. C. Scully, Mohit Melwani Daswani, Kynan Hughson The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 3, Number 3Published: March 16,…

A case for a Themis asteroid family spacecraft mission

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M.E. Landis, J.C. Castillo-Rogez, P.O. Hayne, H. Hsieh, K.H.G. Hughson, D. Kubitschek, K.E. Miller, T.H. Prettyman, A.S. Rivkin, B.E. Schmidt, J.E.C.Scully, N. Yamashita, M.N. Villarreal, M. Alexander, A. Armstrong, C. Bader, C. Brown, J.T. Engbrecht,…

Sending a Spacecraft to Interstellar Comet 2I/BorisovOPEN ACCESS 

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Adam Hibberd, Nikolaos Perakis, Andreas M. Hein PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Preprint submitted to Acta AstronauticaSubmitted on 13 Sep 2019 (v1), last revised 4 Nov 2021 (this version, v3) “In August 2019, a second interstellar object…

AMBITION – comet nucleus cryogenic sample returnOPEN ACCESS 

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D. Bockelée-Morvan, Gianrico Filacchione, Kathrin Altwegg, Eleonora Bianchi, Martin Bizzarro, Jürgen Blum, Lydie Bonal, Fabrizio Capaccioni, Mathieu Choukroun, Claudio Codella, Hervé Cottin, Björn Davidsson, Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Maria N. Drozdovskaya, Cecile Engrand, Marina Galand,…

Analysis of Mission Opportunities to Sedna in 2029-2034OPEN ACCESS 

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V.A. Zubko, A.A. Sukhanov, K.S. Fedyaev, V.V. Koryanov, A.A. Belyaev Advances in Space ResearchAvailable online 16 June 2021 LINK Update (29 December 2021): LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Highlights • Deep space mission challenges.• Long-duration space…

CASTAway: An Asteroid Main Belt Tour and SurveyOPEN ACCESS 

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N. E. Bowles,C. Snodgrass,A Gibbings,J. P. Sanchez,J. A. Arnold,P. Eccleston,T. Andert,A. Probst,G. Naletto,A. C. Vandaele,J. de Leon,A. Nathues,I. R. Thomas,N. Thomas,L. Jorda,V. Da Deppo,H. Haack,S. F. Green,B. Carry,K. L. Donaldson Hanna,J. Leif Jorgensen,A. Kereszturi,F. E….

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