3 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
Tracking the Activity of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS through its Perihelion
T. Marshall Eubanks, Craig E. DeForest, Kevin J. Walsh +10
In order to facilitate interplanetary spacecraft observationsof 3I/ATLAS, we have monitored and predicted the optical properties of its coma using both ground and space-based obser…
astro-ph.EP2025
Study of Venera Spacecraft Trajectories and Wider Implications
Adam Hibberd
Historically, there is no doubt that the early years of the USSR space program put them way ahead of the competition (the USA). Nonetheless, although this was not what the Russians…
astro-ph.EP2025
Preliminary Analysis into the Feasibility of Missions to Asteroid 2024 YR
Adam Hibberd, Thomas Marshall Eubanks
Recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR has an orbital period of almost exactly 4 years, a descending node located almost exactly 1 au from the Sun, with a perihelion slightly les…