The CAESAR project: A comet atmosphere encounter and sample return

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Dec 1986

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In ESA, Proceedings of the 20th ESLAB Symposium on the Exploration of Halley's Comet. Volume 3: Posters p 243-248 (SEE N87-26714

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Cometary Atmospheres, Cosmic Dust, Cosmic Gases, European Space Programs, Flyby Missions, Particulate Sampling, Abundance, Isotopes, Mission Planning, Round Trip Trajectories, Samplers, Solar Wind, Spacecraft Design

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A slow flyby (less than 10 km/sec) of a short-period comet including the collection of a coma dust and gas sample and returning it to Earth for analysis of its elemental, isotopic, structural, and mineralogical composition is discussed. Apart from dust and gas sample collectors with a total area of 5 sq m the scientific payload comprises a camera, neutral and ion mass spectrometers, infrared spectrometer, dust impact detectors, and plasma experiments. During the cruise phase samples of the solar wind are collected and returned to Earth for analysis of elemental and isotopic abundances. The spacecraft and Earth reentry capsule design are described, and mission opportunities with launches in the mid 90's are discussed.

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