The ongoing pursuit of space and hypersonic flight continues to expose critical gaps in the
understanding of material behavior under hypervelocity impact (HVI) and hypersonic flow …

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 …

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

Rock breakdown due to diurnal thermal cycling has been hypothesized to drive boulder
degradation and regolith production on airless bodies. Numerous studies have invoked its …

ABSTRACT NASA sent the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission to impact
Dimorphos, the satellite of the asteroid binary system (65803) Didymos. DART will release …

This study deals with an aspect of blocks observed on many rocky planetary surfaces: in situ
fragmentation. Using LROC/NAC images, we characterized the morphology, morphometry …

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 …

As a complement to experimental and theoretical approaches, numerical modeling has
become an important component to study asteroid collisions and impact processes. In the …

We conducted impact experiments at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range in the context of
an ongoing set of experiments to investigate both target shape and impact speed effects on …

Asteroids are small solid bodies that formed during the early stages of the solar system,
even before the formation of our own planet. Asteroids have been known to strike our planet …