Let's imagine that you need to safely lower a spherical metal asteroid with a diameter of about ten meters to the surface of the Earth. What methods of braking objects of this size would be appropriate?
Some work was being done at JPL on aerobraking when I was there in the early 1980s. If you google "aerobraking papers", you'll get a long list: https://www.google.com/search?q=aerobraking+papers&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS881US881&oq=aerobraking+papers&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.9934j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Some work was being done at JPL on aerobraking when I was there in the early 1980s. If you google "aerobraking papers", you'll get a long list: https://www.google.com/search?q=aerobraking+papers&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS881US881&oq=aerobraking+papers&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.9934j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8