New spacecraft techniques propose using CubeSats, laser rangefinding, and precise Doppler measurements to determine the mass ...
"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy without a parent star, turning a once purely theoretical class of worlds into a ...