[HTML][HTML] Successful kinetic impact into an asteroid for planetary defence

RT Daly, CM Ernst, OS Barnouin, NL Chabot, AS Rivkin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Although no known asteroid poses a threat to Earth for at least the next century, the
catalogue of near-Earth asteroids is incomplete for objects whose impacts would produce …

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 …

Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos

AF Cheng, HF Agrusa, BW Barbee, AJ Meyer… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed a kinetic
impact on asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, at 23: 14 …

Fast boulder fracturing by thermal fatigue detected on stony asteroids

A Lucchetti, S Cambioni, R Nakano… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Spacecraft observations revealed that rocks on carbonaceous asteroids, which constitute
the most numerous class by composition, can develop millimeter-to-meter-scale fractures …

Mechanical properties of rubble pile asteroids (Dimorphos, Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu) through surface boulder morphological analysis

CQ Robin, A Duchene, N Murdoch, JB Vincent… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Planetary defense efforts rely on estimates of the mechanical properties of asteroids, which
are difficult to constrain accurately from Earth. The mechanical properties of asteroid …

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 …

Ejecta evolution following a planned impact into an asteroid: the first five weeks

T Kareta, C Thomas, JY Li, MM Knight… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The impact of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft into Dimorphos, moon of the
asteroid Didymos, changed Dimorphos's orbit substantially, largely from the ejection of …

Physical properties of asteroid Dimorphos as derived from the DART impact

SD Raducan, M Jutzi, AF Cheng, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract On 26 September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission
successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary near-Earth asteroid …

Near-IR Spectral Observations of the Didymos System: Daily Evolution Before and After the DART Impact Indicates that Dimorphos Originated from Didymos

D Polishook, FE DeMeo, BJ Burt… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ejecta from Dimorphos following the DART mission impact significantly increased the
brightness of the Didymos–Dimorphos system, allowing us to examine subsurface material …