Abstract The Younger Dryas (YD) cosmic impact hypothesis is gaining support due to the
increasing amount of proxy evidence from 26 Younger Dryas Boundary sites that includes …

The Hera mission has been approved for development and launch in the new ESA Space
Safety Programme by the ESA Council at Ministerial Level, Space19+, in November 2019 …

After several decades of frustrating results showing a generally poor agreement among
different asteroid family classifications, recent studies based on high accuracy proper …

The Hera mission is under development in the ESA Space Safety Programme for launch in
October 2024. Hera will contribute to the first deflection test of an asteroid with the NASA …

Background Asteroids colliding with planets vary in composition and taxonomical type.
Among Near‐Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are the V‐types, basaltic asteroids that are classified …

Hera - The European Contribution to the First Asteroid Deflection Demonstration - NASA/ADS
Now on home page ads icon ads Enable full ADS view NASA/ADS Hera - The European …

Meteoroid impacts on asteroid surfaces produce a plasma that can be sampled by a nearby
spacecraft. This plasma provides a mechanism for exploring the surface composition of …

The Hera Mission: European Component of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment
(AIDA) Mission to a Binary Asteroid - NASA/ADS Now on home page ads icon ads Enable full …

The consequences of the collisional history of the asteroid belt have been alluded to in a
recent spate of TV shows and movies. The earthly threat in most scenarios is a consequence …

The impact of a meteoroid onto an asteroid transfers linear and angular momentum to the
larger body, which may affect its orbit and its rotational state. Here we show that the …