[HTML][HTML] Successful kinetic impact into an asteroid for planetary defence

RT Daly, CM Ernst, OS Barnouin, NL Chabot, AS Rivkin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Although no known asteroid poses a threat to Earth for at least the next century, the
catalogue of near-Earth asteroids is incomplete for objects whose impacts would produce …

Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos

AF Cheng, HF Agrusa, BW Barbee, AJ Meyer… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed a kinetic
impact on asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, at 23: 14 …

Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

JY Li, M Hirabayashi, TL Farnham, JM Sunshine… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Some active asteroids have been proposed to be formed as a result of impact events.
Because active asteroids are generally discovered by chance only after their tails have fully …

Evidence for multi-fragmentation and mass shedding of boulders on rubble-pile binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos

M Pajola, F Tusberti, A Lucchetti, O Barnouin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Asteroids smaller than 10 km are thought to be rubble piles formed from the reaccumulation
of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of parent bodies. Ground-based …

Mechanical properties of rubble pile asteroids (Dimorphos, Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu) through surface boulder morphological analysis

CQ Robin, A Duchene, N Murdoch, JB Vincent… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Planetary defense efforts rely on estimates of the mechanical properties of asteroids, which
are difficult to constrain accurately from Earth. The mechanical properties of asteroid …

The bearing capacity of asteroid (65803) Didymos estimated from boulder tracks

J Bigot, P Lombardo, N Murdoch, DJ Scheeres… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The bearing capacity-the ability of a surface to support applied loads-is an important
parameter for understanding and predicting the response of a surface. Previous work has …

Impact observations of asteroid Dimorphos via Light Italian CubeSat for imaging of asteroids (LICIACube)

E Dotto, A Zinzi - nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
On September 26th 2022, LICIACube monitored Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
mission impact on asteroid Dimorphos, which is the smaller component of a binary asteroid …

Planetary defense with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and prospects

AS Rivkin, AF Cheng - nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission intentionally impacted the
asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, and this kinetic impact changed Dimorphos' …

The Dimorphos ejecta plume properties revealed by LICIACube

E Dotto, JDP Deshapriya, I Gai, PH Hasselmann… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) had an impact with Dimorphos (a
satellite of the asteroid Didymos) on 26 September 2022. Ground-based observations …

Physical properties of the Didymos system before and after the DART impact

ZY Lin, JB Vincent, WH Ip - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. On September 26, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully
changed the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos (ie 65803 Didymos I), a satellite circling …