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Using Venus for locating space observatories to discover potentially hazardous asteroids

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The paper outlines the history of space missions for discovery and observation of near-earth objects, whose orbits are within that of the Earth, with using Venus gravity to enter the orbits advantageous for observing the Atira asteroids.

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  1. Kinet X, Inc., 7913 Kara Ct., Greenbelt, Maryland, 20770-3016, USA

    D. W. Dunham

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 94035, USA

    A. L. Genova

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Original Russian Text © D.W. Dunham, A.L. Genova, 2010, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 433–439.

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Dunham, D.W., Genova, A.L. Using Venus for locating space observatories to discover potentially hazardous asteroids. Cosmic Res 48, 424–429 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952510050084

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