The proposed Caroline ESA M3 mission to a Main Belt Comet

We describe Caroline, a mission proposal submitted to the European Space Agency in 2010 in response to the Cosmic Visions M3 call for medium-sized missions. Caroline would have travelled to a Main Belt Comet (MBC), characterizing the object during a flyby, and capturing dust from its tenuous coma fo...

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Main Authors: Jones, G, Agarwal, J, Bowles, N, Burchell, M, Coates, A, Fitzsimmons, A, Graps, A, Hsieh, H, Lisse, C, Lowry, S, Masters, A, Snodgrass, C, Tubiana, C
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2018