Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

JY Li, M Hirabayashi, TL Farnham, JM Sunshine… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Some active asteroids have been proposed to be formed as a result of impact events.
Because active asteroids are generally discovered by chance only after their tails have fully …

Effects of impact and target parameters on the results of a kinetic impactor: predictions for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

AM Stickle, ME DeCoster, C Burger… - The planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will impact into the
asteroid Dimorphos on 2022 September 26 as a test of the kinetic impactor technique for …

Global-scale reshaping and resurfacing of asteroids by small-scale impacts, with applications to the DART and Hera missions

SD Raducan, M Jutzi - The planetary science journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We use a novel approach to model the entire cratering process resulting from impacts on
small, weak asteroids that uses shock physics code calculations directly. We found that …

Constraining surface properties of asteroid (162173) Ryugu from numerical simulations of Hayabusa2 mission impact experiment

M Jutzi, SD Raducan, Y Zhang, P Michel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Hayabusa2 mission impact experiment on asteroid Ryugu created an unexpectedly
large crater. The associated regime of low-gravity, low-strength cratering remained largely …

Double asteroid redirection test (dart): Structural and dynamic interactions between asteroidal elements of binary asteroid (65803) didymos

M Hirabayashi, F Ferrari, M Jutzi… - The planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the first full-scale
planetary defense mission. The target is the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, in which the …

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 …

Ejecta formation, early collisional processes, and dynamical evolution after the DART impact on Dimorphos

F Ferrari, SD Raducan, S Soldini… - The Planetary Science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
NASA's DART spacecraft is planned to reach and impact asteroid Dimorphos, the small
moon of binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, at a velocity of 6 km s− 1 in late 2022 September …

Dynamical evolution of ejecta from the DART impact on Dimorphos

A Rossi, F Marzari, JR Brucato… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The DART spacecraft will impact Dimorphos (the secondary body of the Didymos binary
asteroid) to test the kinetic impactor deflection method against possibly hazardous near …

Characterization of the DART Impact Ejecta Plume on Dimorphos from LICIACube Observations

JDP Deshapriya, PH Hasselmann, I Gai… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We modeled the geometry and the three-dimensional orientation of the ejecta cone
triggered by the impact of the DART spacecraft on the asteroid Dimorphos. We used eight …

Rotation-induced granular motion on the secondary component of binary asteroids: Application to the DART impact on Dimorphos

HF Agrusa, R Ballouz, AJ Meyer, E Tasev… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will kinetically impact
Dimorphos, the secondary component of the Didymos binary asteroid system, which will …