The European component of the joint ESA-NASA Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment
(AIDA) mission has been redesigned from the original version called Asteroid Impact …

The effects of projectile/target impedance matching and projectile shape on energy,
momentum transfer and projectile melting during collisions are investigated by numerical …

We present results from numerical simulations of the DART impact using the CTH shock
physics code with 2D homogenous asteroid models. A design of experiments approach was …

A special phenomenon observed in hypervelocity impacts on rock targets is the so-called
momentum multiplication, ie the momentum transferred to the target is greater than the …

An unknown in deflecting an asteroid on a collision course with Earth is the quantitative
effectiveness of various deflection techniques. For example, when an impactor strikes a …

A series of small-scale impact cratering experiments were performed on basalt at velocities
of 3.5–6.0 km s− 1. The formation and motion process of ejecta were observed by high …

The cratering process in brittle materials under hypervelocity impact (HVI) is of major
relevance for debris shielding in spacecraft or high-power laser applications. Amongst other …

We present a hybrid approach for simulating hypervelocity impacts onto asteroids. The
overall system response is separated into two stages based on their different characteristic …

Impact tests were performed from 4 to 5.77 km/s of 3.0-cm-diameter aluminum spheres
impacting 2024-T351 aluminum targets. This data was compared to previously published …

Utilizing a large two-stage light gas gun and a large pendulum assembly, experiments were
performed to measure the momentum enhancement (or increase in momentum transfer due …