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Expected Scientific Results on Ballistic Spacecraft Missions to Comet Encke During the 1980 Apparition*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Michael J. Mumma

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This paper summarizes three proposed ballistic spacecraft missions to intercept P/Encke during the 1980 apparition, establishes a baseline physical activity model for P/Encke, and assesses the performance of the neutral mass spectrometer and of the Imaging experiment on each intercept mission, Many of the most fundamental questions about comets are unlikely ever to be answered by ground-based or near-earth observations alone, and a direct intercept of a comet by an appropriately instrumented spacecraft is required in order to directly study the comet and its intercept mission.

Type
Part II
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 25 , Issue Part2: The Study of Comets , 1976 , pp. 997 - 1032
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1976

Footnotes

*

These results are condensed from the Final Report of the Encke Mission Engineering Panel, NASA Technical Memorandum TMX-72542. Panel members were: D. Herman (Chairman), M. Mumma (co-chairman), R. Farquhar, L. Friedman, J. Moore, B. Swenson, R. Jackson, and J. Beckman.

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