INTRODUCTION Active asteroids are small bodies in the Solar System that show ongoing
mass loss, such as the ejection of dust, which may be caused by large impacts, volatile …

Synchronous binary asteroids can experience libration about their tidally-locked equilibrium,
which will result in energy dissipation. This is an important topic to the Asteroid Impact and …

In order to understand the geological evolution of asteroids Eros, Itokawa and Ryugu and
their collisional history, previous studies investigated boulder size distributions on their …

Context. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will kinetically impact
Dimorphos, the secondary component of the Didymos binary asteroid system, which will …

Spectral characterization of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) has revealed a continuum of space-
weathered states for the surfaces of S-complex NEAs, with Q-class NEAs, an S-complex …

Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission will collect material from the asteroid Bennu and return it to …

This paper explores the implications of the observed Bennu particle ejection events for that
asteroid's spin rate and orbit evolution, which could complicate interpretation of the …

We develop a continuum framework of regolith flow on asteroids. We focus on top-shaped
asteroids that may be taken as consisting of regolith lying on a solid core. Depth-averaging …

The dynamics of asteroid deflection and manipulation using mass ejection are examined.
First, a linearized small angular velocity and inertia tensor deviation model for close-to …

Near-Earth binary asteroids are typically comprised of a kilometer-sized rapidly rotating
primary asteroid, orbited by a smaller secondary asteroid usually rotating synchronously …