Tuesday, October 16, 2018

PB2B - Analyze 2 Scholarly Journal Articles

Journal #1 - Orbital Mechanics about Small Bodies
  • Scheeres, D. J. "Orbital Mechanics about Small Bodies." Acta Astronautica, vol. 72, 2012, pp. 1-14. (Link)
Journal #2 -
  • Paul, SN, and C. Frueh. "Space-Object Charging and its Effect on Orbit Evolution." Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, vol. 40, no. 12, 2017, pp. 3180-3198. (Link)

Both of these articles are looking at small bodies and how they react to spacecraft. Small bodies being, asteroids, comets, etc. They both are trying to find a solution to predict how these bodies will react with the spacecraft. The problem being that they would want to avoid satellites or spacecraft getting hit by these objects. Journal 2 is different in the sense that they are looking at how these small bodies at the in different zones of Earth's magnetosphere, while Journal 1 is just looking at objects in general floating in space. Journal 2 looked at currents, plasa conditions, and simulations. While Journal 1 looked at actual spacecraft floating through space. Both articles imposed that small bodies in space are unpredictable and a solution needs to be put in place to prevent these small bodies from hitting important objects in space.
Both journals had relatively the same structure, opening with the abstract, then introduction. They both do some explaining of how they would measure these things, and then they include the results of the matter, and end with a conclusion, followed by the references. 

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