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61. Asteroids: Near Earth Objects That Provide Opportunities for Human Space Exploration

Authors : Tracy L. Johnson, Dorit B. Donoviel

Published in: Handbook of Bioastronautics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Near Earth Object (NEO) NEOs include comets, asteroids, and meteors that have been affected by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets and directed into orbits that allow them to be considered “near” the Earth (i.e., within 45 million kilometers of the Earth’s orbit). NEOs are widely varied in size from centimeters to kilometers in diameter (NEO Program JPL 2015a; Abercromby et al. 2013).

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Title: Asteroids: Near Earth Objects That Provide Opportunities for Human Space Exploration
Authors: Tracy L. Johnson
Dorit B. Donoviel
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Handbook of Bioastronautics
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-12190-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-12191-8

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12191-8_74

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