Orbital evolution of the MUSES-C mission target: (25143) 1998 SF36

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Nov 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.500..331y&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets, Meteors - ACM 2002. International Conference, 29 July - 2 August 2002, Berlin, Germany. Ed

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Minor Planets: Space Missions

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The MUSES-C mission is the first sample return mission from asteroid. It will be launched in the end of 2002, arrive at one of the Near-Earth Asteroid (25143) 1998 SF36 in 2005, and come back to the Earth in 2007. In this paper, the orbital evolution of this target asteroid is studied. Since this asteroid is almost in the ecliptic plane and the orbit crosses the orbits of the Earth and Mars, many close encounters with the Earth and Mars occur. Therefore, the motion of this asteroid is chaotic. We studied the orbital evolution of this asteroid by calculating the motions for many similar initial conditions. The results show that it is most probable that this asteroid exist around the present orbit for about several thousand years to the past or maybe for much longer period.

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