1. Momentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos
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Andrew F. Cheng, Harrison F. Agrusa, Brent W. Barbee, Alex J. Meyer, Tony L. Farnham, Sabina D. Raducan, Derek C. Richardson, Elisabetta Dotto, Angelo Zinzi, Vincenzo Della Corte, Thomas S. Statler, Steven Chesley, Shantanu P. Naidu, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Jian-Yang Li, Siegfried Eggl, Olivier S. Barnouin, Nancy L. Chabot, Sidney Chocron, Gareth S. Collins, R. Terik Daly, Thomas M. Davison, Mallory E. DeCoster, Carolyn M. Ernst, Fabio Ferrari, Dawn M. Graninger, Seth A. Jacobson, Martin Jutzi, Kathryn M. Kumamoto, Robert Luther, Joshua R. Lyzhoft, Patrick Michel, Naomi Murdoch, Ryota Nakano, Eric Palmer, Andrew S. Rivkin, Daniel J. Scheeres, Angela M. Stickle, Jessica M. Sunshine, Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, James D. Walker, Kai Wünnemann, Yun Zhang, Marilena Amoroso, Ivano Bertini, John R. Brucato, Andrea Capannolo, Gabriele Cremonese, Massimo Dall’Ora, Prasanna J. D. Deshapriya, Igor Gai, Pedro H. Hasselmann, Simone Ieva, Gabriele Impresario, Stavro L. Ivanovski, Michèle Lavagna, Alice Lucchetti, Elena M. Epifani, Dario Modenini, Maurizio Pajola, Pasquale Palumbo, Davide Perna, Simone Pirrotta, Giovanni Poggiali, Alessandro Rossi, Paolo Tortora, Marco Zannoni, Giovanni Zanotti, Cheng A.F., Agrusa H.F., Barbee B.W., Meyer A.J., Farnham T.L., Raducan S.D., Richardson D.C., Dotto E., Zinzi A., Della Corte V., Statler T.S., Chesley S., Naidu S.P., Hirabayashi M., Li J.Y., Eggl S., Barnouin O.S., Chabot N.L., Chocron S., Collins G.S., Daly R.T., Davison T.M., DeCoster M.E., Ernst C.M., Ferrari F., Graninger D.M., Jacobson S.A., Jutzi M., Kumamoto K.M., Luther R., Lyzhoft J.R., Michel P., Murdoch N., Nakano R., Palmer E., Rivkin A.S., Scheeres D.J., Stickle A.M., Sunshine J.M., Trigo-Rodriguez J.M., Vincent J.B., Walker J.D., Wünnemann K., Zhang Y., Amoroso M., Bertini I., Brucato J.R., Capannolo A., Cremonese G., Dall’Ora M., Deshapriya P.J.D., Gai I., Hasselmann P.H., Ieva S., Impresario G., Ivanovski S.L., Lavagna M., Lucchetti A., Epifani E.M., Modenini D., Pajola M., Palumbo P., Perna D., Pirrotta S., Poggiali G., Rossi A., Tortora P., Zannoni M., Zanotti G., Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CNRS through the MITI interdisciplinary programmes, CNES, ESA, and European Project: 870377,NEO-MAPP
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asteroids ,bulk density ,geometry ,530 Physics ,[SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP] ,kinetic ,FOS: Physical sciences ,satellite imagery ,size ,Article ,motion ,ma ,controlled study ,uncertainty ,planetary defense ,Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) ,Multidisciplinary ,asteroid ,520 Astronomy ,momentum transfer ,620 Engineering ,astronomy ,preliminary data ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,DART ,Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - 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 UTC on September 26, 2022 as a planetary defense test. DART was the first hypervelocity impact experiment on an asteroid at size and velocity scales relevant to planetary defense, intended to validate kinetic impact as a means of asteroid deflection. Here we report the first determination of the momentum transferred to an asteroid by kinetic impact. Based on the change in the binary orbit period, we find an instantaneous reduction in Dimorphos's along-track orbital velocity component of 2.70 +/- 0.10 mm/s, indicating enhanced momentum transfer due to recoil from ejecta streams produced by the impact. For a Dimorphos bulk density range of 1,500 to 3,300 kg/m$^3$, we find that the expected value of the momentum enhancement factor, $\beta$, ranges between 2.2 and 4.9, depending on the mass of Dimorphos. If Dimorphos and Didymos are assumed to have equal densities of 2,400 kg/m$^3$, $\beta$= 3.61 +0.19/-0.25 (1 $\sigma$). These $\beta$ values indicate that significantly more momentum was transferred to Dimorphos from the escaping impact ejecta than was incident with DART. Therefore, the DART kinetic impact was highly effective in deflecting the asteroid Dimorphos., Comment: accepted by Nature
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- 2023
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