Mission Designs for Demonstrating Gravity Tractor Asteroid Deflection

Michael Busch1, Nicolas Faber2, Siegfried Eggl3, David Morrison1,2, Ashley Clark4, Chad Frost5, Belgacem A Jaroux2 and Vatsala Khetawat2, (1)SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States