2 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Enabling tomorrow's planetary defence and space resource economy: Autonomous fleet-based asteroid rendezvous missions
Stefania Soldini, Paul A. Abell, Daniel J. Scheeres +8
Asteroids preserve the solar system's earliest history and pose real threats to Earth. Strengthening the UK's capabilities to detect, track, and characterise Near-Earth Objects (NE…
astro-ph.EP2025
A 3D thermophysical model for binary asteroid systems: Application to the BYORP effect on (175706) 1996 FG3
Kya C. Sorli, Paul O. Hayne, Rachel H. Cueva +3
Differential heating and radiation on asymmetric asteroids can cause measurable changes in their rotation rates and spin axes, known as the YORP effect. In binary systems, such rad…