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Geotechnical properties of asteroids affecting surface operations, mining, and in situ resource utilization activities

  • Kris Zacny
  • , Edward B. Bierhaus
  • , Daniel T. Britt
  • , Benton Clark
  • , Christine M. Hartzell
  • , Leslie Gertsch
  • , Anton V. Kulchitsky
  • , Jerome B. Johnson
  • , Phil Metzger
  • , David M. Reeves
  • , Paul Sanchez
  • , Daniel J. Scheeres
  • Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation
  • Lockheed Martin
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Coupi Inc.
  • NASA Langley Research Center
  • University of Colorado Boulder

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPrimitive Meteorites and Asteroids
Subtitle of host publicationPhysical, Chemical, and Spectroscopic Observations Paving the Way to Exploration
PublisherElsevier
Pages439-476
Number of pages38
ISBN (Electronic)9780128133255
ISBN (Print)9780128133262
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2018

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Engineering

Keywords

  • Adhesion
  • Asteroid Redirect Mission
  • Asteroid simulant
  • Bearing capacity
  • Bulk cohesion
  • Cohesion
  • Compaction
  • Density
  • Discrete element method
  • Electrostatic forces
  • Gas drag
  • Geotechnical properties
  • In situ resource utilization
  • Porosity
  • Regolith
  • Simulations
  • Soil mechanics
  • Solar radiation pressure
  • Strength
  • Tribocharging
  • Van der Waals force

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