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 …

Asteroid families: properties, recent advances, and future opportunities

B Novaković, D Vokrouhlický, F Spoto… - Celestial Mechanics and …, 2022 - Springer
Collisions are one of the key processes shaping planetary systems. Asteroid families are
outcomes of such collision still identifiable across our solar system. The families provide a …

Trojan asteroid satellites, rings, and activity

KS Noll, ME Brown, MW Buie, WM Grundy… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
The Lucy mission will encounter five Jupiter Trojans during its mission with three of the five
already known to be multiple systems. These include a near-equal-mass binary, a small and …

Inferring interiors and structural history of top-shaped asteroids from external properties of asteroid (101955) Bennu

Y Zhang, P Michel, OS Barnouin, JH Roberts… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Asteroid interiors play a key role in our understanding of asteroid formation and evolution.
As no direct interior probing has been done yet, characterisation of asteroids' interiors relies …

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 …

SsODNet: Solar system Open Database Network

J Berthier, B Carry, M Mahlke, J Normand - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The sample of Solar system objects has dramatically increased over the last
decade. The number of measured properties (eg, diameter, taxonomy, rotation period …

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 …

A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh

HF Levison, S Marchi, KS Noll, JR Spencer, TS Statler… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Asteroids with diameters less than about 5 km have complex histories because they are
small enough for radiative torques (that is, YORP, short for the Yarkovsky–O'Keefe …

[HTML][HTML] Lifted particles from the fast spinning primary of the Near-Earth Asteroid (65803) Didymos

N Trógolo, AC Bagatin, F Moreno, PG Benavidez - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
An increasing number of Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) in the range of a few hundred metres
to a few kilometres in size have relatively high spin rates, from less than 4 h, down to∼ 2.2 h …

Thermal Properties of 1847 WISE-observed Asteroids

D Hung, J Hanuš, JR Masiero… - The Planetary Science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new thermophysical model fits of 1847 asteroids, deriving thermal inertia,
diameter, and Bond and visible geometric albedo. We use thermal flux measurements …