A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh

HF Levison, S Marchi, KS Noll, JR Spencer, TS Statler… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Asteroids with diameters less than about 5 km have complex histories because they are
small enough for radiative torques (that is, YORP, short for the Yarkovsky–O'Keefe …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid formation of binary asteroid systems post rotational failure: a recipe for making atypically shaped satellites

J Wimarsson, Z Xiang, F Ferrari, M Jutzi, G Madeira… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Binary asteroid formation is a highly complex process, which has been highlighted with
recent observations of satellites with unexpected shapes, such as the oblate Dimorphos by …

Direct N-body Simulations of Satellite Formation around Small Asteroids: Insights from DART's Encounter with the Didymos System

HF Agrusa, Y Zhang, DC Richardson… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore binary asteroid formation by spin-up and rotational disruption considering the
NASA DART mission's encounter with the Didymos–Dimorphos binary, which was the first …

Long-term dust dynamics in Didymos and Dimorphos system: Production, stability, and transport

G Madeira, S Charnoz, N Rambaux, P Robutel - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Target of NASA's DART mission, the system of Didymos and Dimorphos will once again be
visited by a space mission—ESA's Hera mission, scheduled to be launch in 2024. Hera will …

The Discovery of a Contact-Binary Satellite of the Asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh by the Lucy Mission

H Levison - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Abstract On November 1, 2023, Lucy passed within 431 km of the smallest Main Belt
asteroid yet to be encountered by a spacecraft,(152830) Dinkinesh. This target was a late …

[PDF][PDF] FORMATION OF DIMORPHOS IN PYRAMIDAL REGIME AND APPLICATION TO DINKINESH'S SATELLITE

G Madeira, S Charnoz - LPI Contributions, 2024 - hou.usra.edu
Introduction: Didymos' secondary, Dimorphos, was impacted in September 2022 by NASA's
DART mission probe. As revealed by the data from the DART mission, Dimorphos has a …