Ballistic Transfers Across the 1∶1 Resonance Around Vesta Following Invariant Manifolds

Abstract

Agraïments: The authors would like to thank Greg Whiffen of the Dawn navigation team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for sharing his opinions, data, and time in support of this study. The authors also thank Alex Konopliv of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for providing the gravity model of Vesta described in the Appendix based on pre-Dawn encounter data. Part of this work as been performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, which is under contract with the National Administration for Space and Aeronautics.