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The Castalia mission to Main Belt Coment 133P/Elst-Pizarro

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dc.creator Snodgrass, C.
dc.creator Jones, G. H.
dc.creator Boehnhardt, H.
dc.creator Gibbings, A.
dc.creator Homeister, M.
dc.creator Andre, N.
dc.creator Beck, P.
dc.creator Bentley, M. S.
dc.creator Bertini, I.
dc.creator Bowles, N.
dc.creator Capria, M. T.
dc.creator Carr, C.
dc.creator Ceriotti, M.
dc.creator Coates, A. J.
dc.creator Della Corte, V.
dc.creator Donaldson Hanna, K. L.
dc.creator Fitzsimmons, A.
dc.creator Gutiérrez, P. J.
dc.creator Hainaut, O. R.
dc.creator Herique, A.
dc.creator Hilchenbach, M.
dc.creator Hsieh, H. H.
dc.creator Jehin, E.
dc.creator Karatekin, O.
dc.creator Kofman, W.
dc.creator Lara, L. M.
dc.creator Laudan, K.
dc.creator Licandro, J.
dc.creator Lowry, S. C.
dc.creator Marzari, F.
dc.creator Masters, A.
dc.creator Meech, K. J.
dc.creator Moreno, F.
dc.creator Morse, A.
dc.creator Orosei, R.
dc.creator Pack, A.
dc.creator Plettemeier, D.
dc.creator Prialnik, D.
dc.creator Rotundi, A.
dc.creator Rubin, M.
dc.creator Sánchez, Joan Pau
dc.creator Sheridan, S.
dc.creator Trieloff, M.
dc.creator Winterboer, A.
dc.date 2018-10-12T15:10:23Z
dc.date 2018-10-12T15:10:23Z
dc.date 2017-09-19
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:38:59Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:38:59Z
dc.identifier C. Snodgrass, G.H. Jones, H. Boehnhardt, et al., The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro, Advances in Space Research, Volume 62, Issue 8, 15 October 2018, Pages 1947-1976
dc.identifier 0273-1177
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2017.09.011
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13535
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182391
dc.description We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently icy bodies within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which may represent the remnants of the population which supplied the early Earth with water. Castalia will perform the first exploration of this population by characterising 133P in detail, solving the puzzle of the MBC’s activity, and making the first in situ measurements of water in the asteroid belt. In many ways a successor to ESA’s highly successful Rosetta mission, Castalia will allow direct comparison between very different classes of comet, including measuring critical isotope ratios, plasma and dust properties. It will also feature the first radar system to visit a minor body, mapping the ice in the interior. Castalia was proposed, in slightly different versions, to the ESA M4 and M5 calls within the Cosmic Vision programme. We describe the science motivation for the mission, the measurements required to achieve the scientific goals, and the proposed instrument payload and spacecraft to achieve these.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Comets
dc.subject Asteroids
dc.subject Main Belt Comets
dc.subject Spacecraft missions
dc.title The Castalia mission to Main Belt Coment 133P/Elst-Pizarro
dc.type Article


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