Interstellar Now! Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects
Whitepaper #359 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: life and prebiotic organics; other science themes: Missions to Interstellar Objects; primitive bodies
by Andreas Hein, T. Marshall Eubanks, Adam Hibberd, Dan Fries, Jean Schneider, Manasvi Lingam, Robert G. Kennedy, Nikolaos Perakis, Bernd Dachwald, and Pierre Kervella
Published onMar 18, 2021
Interstellar Now! Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects
This White Paper shows that missions to various interstellar objects (ISO) can be launched with existing or near-term technology in the near future. Such missions would generate in-situ data from bona fide extrasolar objects, the scientific value of which is difficult to overstate, without actually flying to other stellar systems.
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