Directory of Asteroids and Comets Resources

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Unmanned spacecraft sent primarily to observe asteroids and comets.

Subcategories

• Deep Impact
• Deep Space 1
• Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
• Stardust

Resources in This Category

• ANTS Asteroid Survey

  http://ants.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  Study on Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm, a novel concept to survey the asteroid belt using an autonomously operating spacecraft swarm.

• Giotto

  http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/giotto.html
  Information on the European mission to Halley's Comet (1985-1992).

• Giotto

  http://sci.esa.int/home/giotto/
  Project documentation and scientific results of the Giotto mission, collected by the European Space Agency.

• MUSES-C

  http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/hayabusa/
  Project homepage for the planned asteroid sample return mission, by the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.

• Rosetta

  http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Rosetta/
  Mission to rendezvous with the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and deploy a lander on its surface. News, mission overview and scientific data compiled by the project team.

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