The eccentric Kozai-Lidov effect and its applications

S Naoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The hierarchical triple-body approximation has useful applications to a variety of systems
from planetary and stellar scales to supermassive black holes. In this approximation, the …

Rubble pile asteroids

KJ Walsh - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The moniker rubble pile is typically applied to all Solar System bodies> 200 m and<∼ 10 km
in diameter; in this size range, there is an abundance of evidence that nearly every object is …

Orbital period change of Dimorphos due to the DART kinetic impact

CA Thomas, SP Naidu, P Scheirich, NA Moskovitz… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully performed
the first test of a kinetic impactor for asteroid deflection by impacting Dimorphos, the …

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): planetary defense investigations and requirements

AS Rivkin, NL Chabot, AM Stickle… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a Planetary Defense mission,
designed to demonstrate the kinetic impactor technique on (65803) Didymos I Dimorphos …

LICIACube-the Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids in support of the NASA DART mission towards asteroid (65803) Didymos

E Dotto, V Della Corte, M Amoroso, I Bertini… - Planetary and Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract “LICIACube–the Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids” is managed by the
Italian Space Agency (ASI) and will be part of the NASA DART mission, with the aim of i) …

Radar observations and a physical model of binary near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, target of the DART mission

SP Naidu, LAM Benner, M Brozovic, MC Nolan… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Near-Earth asteroid Didymos is a binary system and the target of the proposed
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission (Cheng et al., 2016), which is a planetary …

The geology and evolution of the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos

O Barnouin, RL Ballouz, S Marchi, JB Vincent… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Images collected during NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide
the first resolved views of the Didymos binary asteroid system. These images reveal that the …

AIDA DART asteroid deflection test: Planetary defense and science objectives

AF Cheng, AS Rivkin, P Michel, J Atchison… - Planetary and Space …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission is an international
cooperation between NASA and ESA. NASA plans to provide the Double Asteroid …

Preliminary results from NEOWISE: an enhancement to the wide-field infrared survey explorer for solar system science

A Mainzer, J Bauer, T Grav, J Masiero… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has surveyed the entire sky at
four infrared wavelengths with greatly improved sensitivity and spatial resolution compared …

Density of asteroids

B Carry - Planetary and Space Science, 2012 - Elsevier
The small bodies of our solar system are the remnants of the early stages of planetary
formation. A considerable amount of information regarding the processes that occurred …