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J.A. Reichert

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Asteroid Muon Tomography

A feasibility study on using galactic cosmic rays to map small Solar System body interiors.

Asteroids and comets are thought to be the primordial remnants of our early Solar System, their interior structure and composition providing a snapshot of this turbulent era of planet formation. Thus far, everything we know of the internals of these small Solar System bodies has ...