The interstellar interlopers

D Jewitt, DZ Seligman - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Interstellar interlopers are bodies formed outside of the Solar System but observed passing
through it. The first two identified interlopers, 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, exhibited …

Shapes, structures, and evolution of small bodies

Y Zhang, P Michel - Astrodynamics, 2021 - Springer
Small bodies are among the best tracers of our Solar System's history. A large number of
space missions to small bodies (past and future) offer a unique opportunity to use these …

OSIRIS-APEX: an OSIRIS-REx extended mission to asteroid apophis

DN DellaGiustina, MC Nolan, AT Polit… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from …

The collisional evolution of the primordial Kuiper Belt, its destabilized population, and the Trojan asteroids

WF Bottke, D Vokrouhlický, R Marschall… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The tumultuous early era of outer solar system evolution culminated when Neptune migrated
across the primordial Kuiper Belt (PKB) and triggered a dynamical instability among the …

Creep stability of the DART/Hera mission target 65803 Didymos: II. The role of cohesion

Y Zhang, P Michel, DC Richardson, OS Barnouin… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The binary asteroid 65803 Didymos-Dimorphos is the target of the first asteroid
deflection test (NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART) and the first binary asteroid …

The MMX rover: performing in situ surface investigations on Phobos

P Michel, S Ulamec, U Böttger, M Grott… - earth, planets and …, 2022 - Springer
The Japanese MMX sample return mission to Phobos by JAXA will carry a rover developed
by CNES and DLR that will be deployed on Phobos to perform in situ analysis of the Martian …

Constraints on the occurrence of 'Oumuamua-like objects

WG Levine, SHC Cabot, D Seligman… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
At present, there exists no consensus in the astronomical community regarding either the
bulk composition or the formation mechanism for the interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 …

Seismology of rubble-pile asteroids in binary systems

DN DellaGiustina, RL Ballouz, KJ Walsh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The mutual gravitational interaction of binary asteroids, which make up approximately 15 per
cent of the near-Earth asteroid (NEA) population, provides a continuous tidal force, creating …

On the possibility of an artificial origin for 'Oumuamua

A Loeb - Astrobiology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The first large interstellar object discovered near Earth by the Pan STARRS
telescope,'Oumuamua, showed half a dozen anomalies relative to comets or asteroids in the …

Orbital migration and circularization of tidal debris by Alfvén-wave drag: circumstellar debris and pollution around white dwarfs

Y Zhang, SF Liu, DNC Lin - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A significant fraction of white dwarfs (WDs) exhibit signs of ongoing accretion of refractory
elements at rates∼ 10 3–10 7 kg s− 1, among which, 37 WDs were detected to harbor dusty …