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Icarus: In-situ monitoring of the surface degradation on a near-Sun asteroid

Granvik, Mikael; Lehtinen, Tuomas; Bellome, Andrea +1 more

Icarus is a mission concept designed to record the activity of an asteroid during a close encounter with the Sun. The primary science goal of the mission is to unravel the nontrivial mechanism(s) that destroy asteroids on orbits with small perihelion distances. Understanding the destruction mechanism(s) allows us to constrain the bulk composition …