Published August 2018
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Book Section - Chapter
SmallSat Swarm Gravimetry: Revealing the Interior Structure of Asteroids and Comets
- Creators
- Ledbetter, William
- Sood, Rohan
- Keane, James
Abstract
A growing database of interesting small bodies motivates research into rapid characterization methods for economic or scientific objectives. The computational tools developed in this work enable reconstruction of internal structure for irregularly shaped celestial bodies, thus aiding target selection and exploration. Simulations of on-orbit data are used to recover the density map of a multi layered polyhedron, and reconstruction accuracies are investigated across multiple scenarios. The presented results and analysis demonstrate successful density recovery of a fully heterogeneous, multilayered asteroid with on-orbit measurements.
Additional Information
© 2018 AIAA.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 99206
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20191010-074327912
- University of Alabama
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2019-10-10Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2019-10-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 167
- Other Numbering System Name
- AIAA Paper
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- AAS 18-225