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Publikováno v:
Acta Astronautica. 183:29-42
In the future, a hazardous asteroid will find itself on a collision course with Earth. For asteroids of moderate size or larger, a nuclear device is one of humanity’s only technologies capable of mitigating this threat via deflection on a timescale
Autor:
James E. Bevins, Megan Bruck Syal, Lansing S. Horan, Joseph Wasem, Darren E. Holland, Michael L. Dexter
Publikováno v:
2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference.
The impact of the physical geometry of source versus target produced by a nuclear device used for neutron irradiation and energy deposition as a means of asteroid deflection is investigated. This work examines how these geometric profiles change as b