Delta-V formula

(See attached file: top 50 neas.xls)

I've attached the Excel (version 97 SR2) file directly. I hope that you
are able to read it now.

I missed quite a few of the Apollo asteroids for some unknown reason
yesterday, so even if you were able to read the version I sent yesterday,
please discard it and use this updated one instead.

I added a column AG for the synodic period of the (Earth,NEA) pair.

As I said, my knowledge of orbital mechanics is rudimentary, so these calcs
are probably not as exact as they could be.

But I think they're fairly reasonable because the following asteroids "in
the news" bubble up to my top 50:
* 1999 AO10 / 2000 AG6 / 1998 UQ, the three targets for the Hera mission
(c.f., http://www.uark.edu/misc/hera/)
* 1998 KY26, imaged via radar and thought to contain water (c.f.,
http://www.academicpress.com/solar/Contents/chap33.htm)
* 2000 SG344, the NEA that might perhaps be a discarded Saturn IVB stage
that failed to impact the Moon (c.f.,
http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast06nov_2.htm)

Ron Menich

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> (See attached file: top 50 neas.zip)
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> Hopefully this site accepts small attachments...

The .zip didn't with this network. Is it possible for you to send me
the original .xls? We aren't working in quite the fashion you are -
are shortterm goal is flybys - & really shocking the hell out of the
advertising industry - of large, hopefully scientifically interesting
objects; but are keeping our eyes are open for second generation
rendezvous & sample return objects as we do so.

Robert