“Operating spacecraft around comets: Evaluation of the near-nucleus environment”

1 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 carey.lisse@jhuapl.edu, andy.cheng@jhuapl.edu, neil.dello.russo@jhuapl.edu, hal.weaver@jhuapl.edu, james.leary@jhuapl.edu 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 mcombi@umich.edu 3Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD farnham@astro.umd.edu 4Astrophysics Branch, Space Sciences Division, NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA 94035 scott.a.sandford @nasa.gov 5Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, 1629 E. University Blvd Tucson AZ 85721 wharris@lpl.arizona.edu, uwefink@lpl.arizona.edu 6Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80305 scheeres@colorado.edu, jay.mcmahon@colorado.edu