Achievement of the planetary defense investigations of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

NL Chabot, AS Rivkin, AF Cheng… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was the first to
demonstrate asteroid deflection, and the mission's Level 1 requirements guided its planetary …

Photometry of the Didymos system across the DART impact apparition

N Moskovitz, C Thomas, P Pravec… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 2022 September 26, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft
impacted Dimorphos, the satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos. This …

The dynamical state of the Didymos system before and after the DART impact

DC Richardson, HF Agrusa, B Barbee… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos,
the natural satellite of (65803) Didymos, on 2022 September 26, as a first successful test of …

Orbital and physical characterization of asteroid Dimorphos following the DART impact

SP Naidu, SR Chesley, N Moskovitz… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted Dimorphos, the
satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos, on 2022 September 26 UTC. We …

Byorp and dissipation in binary asteroids: Lessons from dart

M Ćuk, H Agrusa, RH Cueva, F Ferrari… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The near-Earth binary asteroid Didymos was the target of the planetary defense
demonstration mission DART in 2022 September. The smaller binary component …

[HTML][HTML] The hera radio science experiment at didymos

E Gramigna, RL Manghi, M Zannoni, P Tortora… - Planetary and Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Hera represents the European Space Agency's inaugural planetary defense space
mission and plays a pivotal role in the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment …

Rotational lightcurves of Dimorphos and constraints on its post-DART impact spin state

P Pravec, AJ Meyer, P Scheirich, DJ Scheeres… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Dimorphos, the secondary member of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, was impacted
by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on September 26, 2022 …

The Yarkovsky effect on the long-term evolution of binary asteroids

WH Zhou, D Vokrouhlický, M Kanamaru… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the Yarkovsky effect on small binary asteroids. While significant attention has
been given to the binary YORP effect, the Yarkovsky effect is often overlooked. We develop …

The binary Yarkovsky effect on the primary asteroid with applications to singly synchronous binary asteroids

WH Zhou - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The binary Yarkovsky effect on the secondary asteroid (BYS) was recently
discovered to influence binary asteroid systems by pushing the secondary asteroid towards …

Planar spacecraft trajectories in the Didymos–Dimorphos binary asteroid system

G Voyatzis, D Karydis, I Gkolias, M Gaitanas… - Planetary and Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamics of a spacecraft in the vicinity of the Didymos and Dimorphos binary system is
studied, with specific emphasis on the bounded orbits that exist in such a perturbed …