Original MAB Object Set for CASTAway M5 Submission Exploration

The zip file containts the ephemeris of the MAB objects used in the published works of:

J.P. Sánchez, A. Gibbings, C. Snodgrass, N. Bowles, S. Green, Asteroid Belt Multiple Flyby Options for M-Class Missions, in: 67th International Astronautical Congress International Astronautical Federation, Guadalajara, Mexico, 26-30 September 2016.

M. Di Carlo, M. Vasile, J. Dunlop, Low-thrust tour of the main belt asteroids, Advances in Space Research, 62 (2018) 2026-2045.

Currently, a new manuscrip is being considered for publication, which also uses the same ephemeris set to comput asteroid tours in the Main Asteroid Belt. 

A. Bellome, J.P. Sánchez, J.C. García-Mateas, L. Felicetti and S. Kemble, Modified Dynamic programming for Asteroid Belt exploration, Acta Astronautica, Under Review. 

The files containt the ephemeris and and some matlab functions to retrieve position and velocity of the asteroids at a given epoch or time.