Why Small is Beautiful--and How to Detect Another 10 Billion Small Main Belt Asteroids

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Mar 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005lpi....36.1302h&link_type=abstract

36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 14-18, 2005, in League City, Texas, abstract no.1302

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Estimates of the size distribution of main belt asteroids suggest that
there is a population of approximately 10 billion objects in the meter
to km range. We have explored the possibilities to build a fully
autonomus spacecraft that can detect and study these objects from within
the main belt.

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