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1. Impact disruption of Bjurb\'ole porous chondritic projectile

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Kohout, Tomas, Pajola, Maurizio, Soini, Assi-Johanna, Lucchetti, Alice, Luttinen, Arto, Duchêne, Alexia, Murdoch, Naomi, Luther, Robert, Chabot, Nancy L., Raducan, Sabina D., Sánchez, Paul, Barnouin, Olivier S., and Rivkin, Andrew S.

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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Physics - Geophysics
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The ~200 m/s impact of a single 400-kg Bjurb\"ole L/LL ordinary chondrite meteorite onto sea ice resulted in the catastrophic disruption of the projectile. This resulted in a significant fraction of decimeter-sized fragments that exhibit power law cumulative size and mass distributions. This size range is underrepresented in impact experiments and asteroid boulder studies. The Bjurb\"ole projectile fragments share similarities in shape (sphericity, and roughness at small and large scale) with asteroid boulders. However, the mean aspect ratio (3D measurement) and apparent aspect ratio (2D measurement) of Bjurb\"ole fragment is 0.83 and 0.77, respectively, indicating that Bjurb\"ole fragments are more equidimensional compared to both fragments produced in smaller scale impact experiments and asteroid boulders. These differences may be attributed either to the fragment source (projectile vs. target), to the high porosity and low strength of Bjurb\"ole, to the lower impact velocity compared with typical asteroid collision velocities, or potentially to fragment erosion during sea sediment penetration or cleaning., Comment: Data repository https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10062980

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2024
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2. Macro-scale roughness reveals the complex history of asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos

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Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Asphaug, Erik, Barnouin, Olivier, Beccarelli, Joel, Benavidez, Paula G., Campo-Bagatin, Adriano, Chabot, Nancy L., Ernst, Carolyn M., Hasselmann, Pedro H., Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Ieva, Simone, Karatekin, Ozgur, Kasparek, Tomas, Kohout, Tomas, Lin, Zhong-Yi, Lucchetti, Alice, Michel, Patrick, Murdoch, Naomi, Pajola, Maurizio, Parro, Laura M., Raducan, Sabina D., Sunshine, Jessica, Tancredi, Gonzalo, Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M., and Zinzi, Angelo

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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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Morphological mapping is a fundamental step in studying the processes that shaped an asteroid surface. Yet, it is challenging and often requires multiple independent assessments by trained experts. Here, we present fast methods to detect and characterize meaningful terrains from the topographic roughness: entropy of information, and local mean surface orientation. We apply our techniques to Didymos and Dimorphos, the target asteroids of NASA's DART mission: first attempt to deflect an asteroid. Our methods reliably identify morphological units at multiple scales. The comparative study reveals various terrain types, signatures of processes that transformed Didymos and Dimorphos. Didymos shows the most heterogeneity and morphology that indicate recent resurfacing events. Dimorphos is comparatively rougher than Didymos, which may result from the formation process of the binary pair and past interaction between the two bodies. Our methods can be readily applied to other bodies and data sets., Comment: submitted to PSJ

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2024

3. Direct $N$-body simulations of satellite formation around small asteroids: insights from DART's encounter with the Didymos system

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Agrusa, Harrison F., Zhang, Yun, Richardson, Derek C., Pravec, Petr, Ćuk, Matija, Michel, Patrick, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Jacobson, Seth A., Scheeres, Daniel J., Walsh, Kevin, Barnouin, Olivier, Daly, R. Terik, Palmer, Eric, Pajola, Maurizio, Lucchetti, Alice, Tusberti, Filippo, DeMartini, Joseph V., Ferrari, Fabio, Meyer, Alex J., Raducan, Sabina D., and Sánchez, Paul

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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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We explore binary asteroid formation by spin-up and rotational disruption considering the NASA DART mission's encounter with the Didymos-Dimorphos binary, which was the first small binary visited by a spacecraft. Using a suite of $N$-body simulations, we follow the gravitational accumulation of a satellite from meter-sized particles following a mass-shedding event from a rapidly rotating primary. The satellite's formation is chaotic, as it undergoes a series of collisions, mergers, and close gravitational encounters with other moonlets, leading to a wide range of outcomes in terms of the satellite's mass, shape, orbit, and rotation state. We find that a Dimorphos-like satellite can form rapidly, in a matter of days, following a realistic mass-shedding event in which only ${\sim}2-3\%$ of the primary's mass is shed. Satellites can form in synchronous rotation due to their formation near the Roche limit. There is a strong preference for forming prolate (elongated) satellites, although some simulations result in oblate spheroids like Dimorphos. The distribution of simulated secondary shapes is broadly consistent with other binary systems, measured through radar or lightcurves. Unless Dimorphos's shape is an outlier, and considering the observational bias against lightcurve-based determination of secondary elongations for oblate bodies, we suggest there could be a significant population of oblate secondaries. If these satellites initially form with elongated shapes, a yet-unidentified pathway is needed to explain how they become oblate. Finally, we show that this chaotic formation pathway occasionally forms asteroid pairs and stable triples, including co-orbital satellites and satellites in mean motion resonances., Comment: 41 pages, 23 figures, accepted to PSJ, movies available at https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8387043

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2024
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4. Near to Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of (65803) Didymos as observed by JWST: Characterization Observations Supporting the Double Asteroid Redirection Test

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Rivkin, Andrew S., Thomas, Cristina A., Wong, Ian, Rozitis, Benjamin, de León, Julia, Holler, Bryan, Milam, Stefanie N., Howell, Ellen S., Hammel, Heidi B., Arredondo, Anicia, Brucato, John R., Epifani, Elena M., Ieva, Simone, La Forgia, Fiorangela, Lucas, Michael P., Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Poggiali, Giovanni, Sunshine, Jessica N., and Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M.

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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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The Didymos binary asteroid was the target of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which intentionally impacted Dimorphos, the smaller member of the binary system. We used the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) instruments on JWST to measure the 0.6-5 $\mu$m and 5-20 $\mu$m spectra of Didymos approximately two months after the DART impact. These observations confirm that Didymos belongs to the S asteroid class and is most consistent with LL chondrite composition as was previously determined from its 0.6-2.5-$\mu$m reflectance spectrum. Measurements at wavelengths $>$ 2.5 $\mu$m show Didymos to have thermal properties typical for an S-complex asteroid of its size and to be lacking absorptions deeper than $\sim$2\% due to OH or H2O. Didymos' mid-infrared emissivity spectrum is within the range of what has been observed on S-complex asteroids observed with Spitzer Space Telescope and is most consistent with emission from small ($<$ 25 $\mu$m) surface particles. We conclude that the observed reflectance and physical properties make the Didymos system a good proxy for the type of ordinary chondrite asteroids that cross near-Earth space, and a good representative of likely future impactors., Comment: Accepted by the Planetary Science Journal, 16 October 2023 Paper has 29 pages, 13 figures, 1 table

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2023

5. Author Correction: The geology and evolution of the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos

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Barnouin, Olivier, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Marchi, Simone, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Agrusa, Harrison, Zhang, Yun, Ernst, Carolyn M., Pajola, Maurizio, Tusberti, Filippo, Lucchetti, Alice, Daly, R. Terik, Palmer, Eric, Walsh, Kevin J., Michel, Patrick, Sunshine, Jessica M., Rizos, Juan L., Farnham, Tony L., Richardson, Derek C., Parro, Laura M., Murdoch, Naomi, Robin, Colas Q., Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Kahout, Tomas, Asphaug, Erik, Raducan, Sabina D., Jutzi, Martin, Ferrari, Fabio, Hasselmann, Pedro Henrique Aragao, CampoBagatin, Adriano, Chabot, Nancy L., Li, Jian-Yang, Cheng, Andrew F., Nolan, Michael C., Stickle, Angela M., Karatekin, Ozgur, Dotto, Elisabetta, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Rossi, Alessandro, Gai, Igor, Deshapriya, Jasinghege Don Prasanna, Bertini, Ivano, Zinzi, Angelo, Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M., Beccarelli, Joel, Ivanovski, Stavro Lambrov, Brucato, John Robert, Poggiali, Giovanni, Zanotti, Giovanni, Amoroso, Marilena, Capannolo, Andrea, Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Lavagn, Michèle, Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, and Rivkin, Andrew S.

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2024
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6. Mechanical properties of rubble pile asteroids (Dimorphos, Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu) through surface boulder morphological analysis

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Robin, Colas Q., Duchene, Alexia, Murdoch, Naomi, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Ernst, Carolyn M., Daly, R. Terik, Barnouin, Olivier S., Raducan, Sabina D., Michel, Patrick, Hirabayashi, Masatochi, Stott, Alexander, Cuervo, Gabriela, Jawin, Erica R., Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M., Parro, Laura M., Sunday, Cecily, Vivet, Damien, Mimoun, David, Rivkin, Andrew S., and Chabot, Nancy L.

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2024
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7. The geology and evolution of the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos

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Barnouin, Olivier, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Marchi, Simone, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Agrusa, Harrison, Zhang, Yun, Ernst, Carolyn M., Pajola, Maurizio, Tusberti, Filippo, Lucchetti, Alice, Daly, R. Terik, Palmer, Eric, Walsh, Kevin J., Michel, Patrick, Sunshine, Jessica M., Rizos, Juan L., Farnham, Tony L., Richardson, Derek C., Parro, Laura M., Murdoch, Naomi, Robin, Colas Q., Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Kahout, Tomas, Asphaug, Erik, Raducan, Sabina D., Jutzi, Martin, Ferrari, Fabio, Hasselmann, Pedro Henrique Aragao, CampoBagatin, Adriano, Chabot, Nancy L., Li, Jian-Yang, Cheng, Andrew F., Nolan, Michael C., Stickle, Angela M., Karatekin, Ozgur, Dotto, Elisabetta, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Rossi, Alessandro, Gai, Igor, Deshapriya, Jasinghege Don Prasanna, Bertini, Ivano, Zinzi, Angelo, Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M., Beccarelli, Joel, Ivanovski, Stavro Lambrov, Brucato, John Robert, Poggiali, Giovanni, Zanotti, Giovanni, Amoroso, Marilena, Capannolo, Andrea, Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Lavagn, Michèle, Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, and Rivkin, Andrew S.

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2024
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9. Momentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos

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Cheng, Andrew F., Agrusa, Harrison F., Barbee, Brent W., Meyer, Alex J., Farnham, Tony L., Raducan, Sabina D., Richardson, Derek C., Dotto, Elisabetta, Zinzi, Angelo, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Statler, Thomas S., Chesley, Steven, Naidu, Shantanu P., Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Li, Jian-Yang, Eggl, Siegfried, Barnouin, Olivier S., Chabot, Nancy L., Chocron, Sidney, Collins, Gareth S., Daly, R. Terik, Davison, Thomas M., DeCoster, Mallory E., Ernst, Carolyn M., Ferrari, Fabio, Graninger, Dawn M., Jacobson, Seth A., Jutzi, Martin, Kumamoto, Kathryn M., Luther, Robert, Lyzhoft, Joshua R., Michel, Patrick, Murdoch, Naomi, Nakano, Ryota, Palmer, Eric, Rivkin, Andrew S., Scheeres, Daniel J., Stickle, Angela M., Sunshine, Jessica M., Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M., Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Walker, James D., Wünnemann, Kai, Zhang, Yun, Amoroso, Marilena, Bertini, Ivano, Brucato, John R., Capannolo, Andrea, Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall'Ora, Massimo, Deshapriya, Prasanna J. D., Gai, Igor, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Ivanovski, Stavro L., Lavagna, Michèle, Lucchetti, Alice, Epifani, Elena M., Modenini, Dario, Pajola, Maurizio, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Poggiali, Giovanni, Rossi, Alessandro, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, and Zanotti, Giovanni

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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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10. Successful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

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Daly, R. Terik, Ernst, Carolyn M., Barnouin, Olivier S., Chabot, Nancy L., Rivkin, Andrew S., Cheng, Andrew F., Adams, Elena Y., Agrusa, Harrison F., Abel, Elisabeth D., Alford, Amy L., Asphaug, Erik I., Atchison, Justin A., Badger, Andrew R., Baki, Paul, Ballouz, Ronald-L., Bekker, Dmitriy L., Bellerose, Julie, Bhaskaran, Shyam, Buratti, Bonnie J., Cambioni, Saverio, Chen, Michelle H., Chesley, Steven R., Chiu, George, Collins, Gareth S., Cox, Matthew W., DeCoster, Mallory E., Ericksen, Peter S., Espiritu, Raymond C., Faber, Alan S., Farnham, Tony L., Ferrari, Fabio, Fletcher, Zachary J., Gaskell, Robert W., Graninger, Dawn M., Haque, Musad A., Harrington-Duff, Patricia A., Hefter, Sarah, Herreros, Isabel, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Huang, Philip M., Hsieh, Syau-Yun W., Jacobson, Seth A., Jenkins, Stephen N., Jensenius, Mark A., John, Jeremy W., Jutzi, Martin, Kohout, Tomas, Krueger, Timothy O., Laipert, Frank E., Lopez, Norberto R., Luther, Robert, Lucchetti, Alice, Mages, Declan M., Marchi, Simone, Martin, Anna C., McQuaide, Maria E., Michel, Patrick, Moskovitz, Nicholas A., Murphy, Ian W., Murdoch, Naomi, Naidu, Shantanu P., Nair, Hari, Nolan, Michael C., Ormö, Jens, Pajola, Maurizio, Palmer, Eric E., Peachey, James M., Pravec, Petr, Raducan, Sabina D., Ramesh, K. T., Ramirez, Joshua R., Reynolds, Edward L., Richman, Joshua E., Robin, Colas Q., Rodriguez, Luis M., Roufberg, Lew M., Rush, Brian P., Sawyer, Carolyn A., Scheeres, Daniel J., Scheirich, Petr, Schwartz, Stephen R., Shannon, Matthew P., Shapiro, Brett N., Shearer, Caitlin E., Smith, Evan J., Steele, R. Joshua, Steckloff, Jordan K, Stickle, Angela M., Sunshine, Jessica M., Superfin, Emil A., Tarzi, Zahi B., Thomas, Cristina A., Thomas, Justin R., Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Tropf, B. Teresa, Vaughan, Andrew T., Velez, Dianna, Waller, C. Dany, Wilson, Daniel S., Wortman, Kristin A., and Zhang, Yun

Subjects
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

While no known asteroid poses a threat to Earth for at least the next century, the catalog of near-Earth asteroids is incomplete for objects whose impacts would produce regional devastation. Several approaches have been proposed to potentially prevent an asteroid impact with Earth by deflecting or disrupting an asteroid. A test of kinetic impact technology was identified as the highest priority space mission related to asteroid mitigation. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the first full-scale test of kinetic impact technology. The mission's target asteroid was Dimorphos, the secondary member of the S-type binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos. This binary asteroid system was chosen to enable ground-based telescopes to quantify the asteroid deflection caused by DART's impact. While past missions have utilized impactors to investigate the properties of small bodies those earlier missions were not intended to deflect their targets and did not achieve measurable deflections. Here we report the DART spacecraft's autonomous kinetic impact into Dimorphos and reconstruct the impact event, including the timeline leading to impact, the location and nature of the DART impact site, and the size and shape of Dimorphos. The successful impact of the DART spacecraft with Dimorphos and the resulting change in Dimorphos's orbit demonstrates that kinetic impactor technology is a viable technique to potentially defend Earth if necessary., Comment: Accepted by Nature

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2023
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11. Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

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Li, Jian-Yang, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Farnham, Tony L., Sunshine, Jessica M., Knight, Matthew M., Tancredi, Gonzalo, Moreno, Fernando, Murphy, Brian, Opitom, Cyrielle, Chesley, Steve, Scheeres, Daniel J., Thomas, Cristina A., Fahnestock, Eugene G., Cheng, Andrew F., Dressel, Linda, Ernst, Carolyn M., Ferrari, Fabio, Fitzsimmons, Alan, Ieva, Simone, Ivanovski, Stavro L., Kareta, Teddy, Kolokolova, Ludmilla, Lister, Tim, Raducan, Sabina D., Rivkin, Andrew S., Rossi, Alessandro, Soldini, Stefania, Stickle, Angela M., Vick, Alison, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Weaver, Harold A., Bagnulo, Stefano, Bannister, Michele T., Cambioni, Saverio, Bagatin, Adriano Campo, Chabot, Nancy L., Cremonese, Gabriele, Daly, R. Terik, Dotto, Elisabetta, Glenar, David A., Granvik, Mikael, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Herreros, Isabel, Jacobson, Seth, Jutzi, Martin, Kohout, Tomas, La Forgia, Fiorangela, Lazzarin, Monica, Lin, Zhong-Yi, Lolachi, Ramin, Lucchetti, Alice, Makadia, Rahil, Epifani, Elena Mazzotta, Michel, Patrick, Migliorini, Alessandra, Moskovitz, Nicholas A., Orm., Jens, Pajola, Maurizio, nchez, Paul S., Schwartz, Stephen R., Snodgrass, Colin, Steckloff, Jordan, Stubbs, Timothy J., and Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M.

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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

Some active asteroids have been proposed to be the result of impact events. Because active asteroids are generally discovered serendipitously only after their tail formation, the process of the impact ejecta evolving into a tail has never been directly observed. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, apart from having successfully changed the orbital period of Dimorphos, demonstrated the activation process of an asteroid from an impact under precisely known impact conditions. Here we report the observations of the DART impact ejecta with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) from impact time T+15 minutes to T+18.5 days at spatial resolutions of ~2.1 km per pixel. Our observations reveal a complex evolution of ejecta, which is first dominated by the gravitational interaction between the Didymos binary system and the ejected dust and later by solar radiation pressure. The lowest-speed ejecta dispersed via a sustained tail that displayed a consistent morphology with previously observed asteroid tails thought to be produced by impact. The ejecta evolution following DART's controlled impact experiment thus provides a framework for understanding the fundamental mechanisms acting on asteroids disrupted by natural impact., Comment: accepted by Nature

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2023
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12. Characterization of the Surfaces and Near-Surface Atmospheres of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto by JUICE

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Tosi, Federico, Roatsch, Thomas, Galli, André, Hauber, Ernst, Lucchetti, Alice, Molyneux, Philippa, Stephan, Katrin, Achilleos, Nicholas, Bovolo, Francesca, Carter, John, Cavalié, Thibault, Cimò, Giuseppe, D’Aversa, Emiliano, Gwinner, Klaus, Hartogh, Paul, Huybrighs, Hans, Langevin, Yves, Lellouch, Emmanuel, Migliorini, Alessandra, Palumbo, Pasquale, Piccioni, Giuseppe, Plaut, Jeffrey J., Postberg, Frank, Poulet, François, Retherford, Kurt, Rezac, Ladislav, Roth, Lorenz, Solomonidou, Anezina, Tobie, Gabriel, Tortora, Paolo, Tubiana, Cecilia, Wagner, Roland, Wirström, Eva, Wurz, Peter, Zambon, Francesca, Zannoni, Marco, Barabash, Stas, Bruzzone, Lorenzo, Dougherty, Michele, Gladstone, Randy, Gurvits, Leonid I., Hussmann, Hauke, Iess, Luciano, Wahlund, Jan-Erik, Witasse, Olivier, Vallat, Claire, and Lorente, Rosario

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2024
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13. Geophysical Characterization of the Interiors of Ganymede, Callisto and Europa by ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer

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Van Hoolst, Tim, Tobie, Gabriel, Vallat, Claire, Altobelli, Nicolas, Bruzzone, Lorenzo, Cao, Hao, Dirkx, Dominic, Genova, Antonio, Hussmann, Hauke, Iess, Luciano, Kimura, Jun, Khurana, Krishan, Lucchetti, Alice, Mitri, Giuseppe, Moore, William, Saur, Joachim, Stark, Alexander, Vorburger, Audrey, Wieczorek, Mark, Aboudan, Alessio, Bergman, Jan, Bovolo, Francesca, Breuer, Doris, Cappuccio, Paolo, Carrer, Leonardo, Cecconi, Baptiste, Choblet, Gaël, De Marchi, Fabrizio, Fayolle, Marie, Fienga, Agnès, Futaana, Yoshifumi, Hauber, Ernst, Kofman, Wlodek, Kumamoto, Atsushi, Lainey, Valery, Molyneux, Philippa, Mousis, Olivier, Plaut, Jeff, Puccio, Walter, Retherford, Kurt, Roth, Lorenz, Seignovert, Benoit, Steinbrügge, Gregor, Thakur, Sanchari, Tortora, Paolo, Tosi, Federico, Zannoni, Marco, Barabash, Stas, Dougherty, Michele, Gladstone, Randy, Gurvits, Leonid I., Hartogh, Paul, Palumbo, Pasquale, Poulet, Francois, Wahlund, Jan-Erik, Grasset, Olivier, and Witasse, Olivier

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2024
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14. After DART: Using the first full-scale test of a kinetic impactor to inform a future planetary defense mission

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Statler, Thomas S., Raducan, Sabina D., Barnouin, Olivier S., DeCoster, Mallory E., Chesley, Steven R., Barbee, Brent, Agrusa, Harrison F., Cambioni, Saverio, Cheng, Andrew F., Dotto, Elisabetta, Eggl, Siegfried, Fahnestock, Eugene G., Ferrari, Fabio, Graninger, Dawn, Herique, Alain, Herreros, Isabel, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Ivanovski, Stavro, Jutzi, Martin, Karatekin, Özgür, Lucchetti, Alice, Luther, Robert, Makadia, Rahil, Marzari, Francesco, Michel, Patrick, Murdoch, Naomi, Nakano, Ryota, Ormö, Jens, Pajola, Maurizio, Rivkin, Andrew S., Rossi, Alessandro, Sánchez, Paul, Schwartz, Stephen R., Soldini, Stefania, Souami, Damya, Stickle, Angela, Tortora, Paolo, Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Venditti, Flaviane, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, and Wünnemann, Kai

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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the first full-scale test of an asteroid deflection technology. Results from the hypervelocity kinetic impact and Earth-based observations, coupled with LICIACube and the later Hera mission, will result in measurement of the momentum transfer efficiency accurate to ~10% and characterization of the Didymos binary system. But DART is a single experiment; how could these results be used in a future planetary defense necessity involving a different asteroid? We examine what aspects of Dimorphos's response to kinetic impact will be constrained by DART results; how these constraints will help refine knowledge of the physical properties of asteroidal materials and predictive power of impact simulations; what information about a potential Earth impactor could be acquired before a deflection effort; and how design of a deflection mission should be informed by this understanding. We generalize the momentum enhancement factor $\beta$, showing that a particular direction-specific $\beta$ will be directly determined by the DART results, and that a related direction-specific $\beta$ is a figure of merit for a kinetic impact mission. The DART $\beta$ determination constrains the ejecta momentum vector, which, with hydrodynamic simulations, constrains the physical properties of Dimorphos's near-surface. In a hypothetical planetary defense exigency, extrapolating these constraints to a newly discovered asteroid will require Earth-based observations and benefit from in-situ reconnaissance. We show representative predictions for momentum transfer based on different levels of reconnaissance and discuss strategic targeting to optimize the deflection and reduce the risk of a counterproductive deflection in the wrong direction., Comment: 30 pages, 7 figures. Planetary Science Journal, in press, accepted 2022 September 22

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2022

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

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Stickle, Angela M., DeCoster, Mallory E., Burger, Christoph, Caldwell, Wendy K., Graninger, Dawn, Kumamoto, Kathryn M., Luther, Robert, Ormö, Jens, Raducan, Sabina, Rainey, Emma, Schäfer, Christoph M., Walker, James D., Zhang, Yun, Michel, Patrick, Owen, J. Michael, Barnouin, Olivier, Cheng, Andy F., Cochron, Sidney, Collins, Gareth S., Davison, Thomas M., Dotto, Elisabetta, Ferrari, Fabio, Herreros, M. Isabel, Ivanovski, Stavro L., Jutzi, Martin, Lucchetti, Alice, Martellato, Elena, Pajola, Maurizio, Plesko, Cathy S., Syal, Megan Bruck, Schwartz, Stephen R., Sunshine, Jessica M., and Wünnemann, Kai

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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will impact into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022 as a test of the kinetic impactor technique for planetary defense. The efficiency of the deflection following a kinetic impactor can be represented using the momentum enhancement factor, Beta, which is dependent on factors such as impact geometry and the specific target material properties. Currently, very little is known about Dimorphos and its material properties that introduces uncertainty in the results of the deflection efficiency observables, including crater formation, ejecta distribution, and Beta. The DART Impact Modeling Working Group (IWG) is responsible for using impact simulations to better understand the results of the DART impact. Pre-impact simulation studies also provide considerable insight into how different properties and impact scenarios affect momentum enhancement following a kinetic impact. This insight provides a basis for predicting the effects of the DART impact and the first understanding of how to interpret results following the encounter. Following the DART impact, the knowledge gained from these studies will inform the initial simulations that will recreate the impact conditions, including providing estimates for potential material properties of Dimorphos and Beta resulting from DARTs impact. This paper summarizes, at a high level, what has been learned from the IWG simulations and experiments in preparation for the DART impact. While unknown, estimates for reasonable potential material properties of Dimorphos provide predictions for Beta of 1-5, depending on end-member cases in the strength regime., Comment: Accepted to PSJ Didymos-DART Focus Issue

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2022

19. Captured Small Solar System Bodies in the Ice Giant Region

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Holt, Timothy R., Buratti, Bonnie, Castillo-Rogez, Julie, Davidsson, Bjorn J. R., Denk, Tilmann, Horner, Jonti, Holler, Bryan J, Jha, Devanshu, Lucchetti, Alice, Nesvorny, David, Pajola, Maurizio, Porter, Simon, Rhoden, Alyssa, Rappolee, Steven, Schindhelm, Rebecca, Spilker, Linda, and Verbiscer, Anne

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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This white paper advocates for the inclusion of small, captured Outer Solar system objects, found in the Ice Giant region in the next Decadal Survey. These objects include the Trojans and Irregular satellite populations of Uranus and Neptune. The captured small bodies provide vital clues as to the formation of our Solar system. They have unique dynamical situations, which any model of Solar system formation needs to explain. The major issue is that so few of these objects have been discovered, with very little information known about them. The purpose of this document is to prioritize further discovery and characterization of these objects. This will require the use of NASA and NSF facilities over the 2023 2032 decade, including additional support for analysis. This is in preparation for potential future insitu missions in the following decades., Comment: Community Science White Paper for the Planetary and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, 2023-2032

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2020

20. High Quality Software for Planetary Science from Space

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Lazzarotto, Francesco, Cremonese, Gabriele, Lucchetti, Alice, Re, Cristina, Simioni, Emanuele, Pajola, Maurizio, Cambianica, Pamela, and Munaretto, Giovanni

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Computer Science - Software Engineering, 85-04 (Primary), 85-05, 85-06 (Secondary), D.2.2, B.8.2
Abstract

Planetary science space missions need high quality software ed efficient algorithms in order to extract innovative scientific results from flight data. Reliable and efficient software technologies are increasingly vital to improve and prolong the exploiting of the results of a mission, to allow the application of established algorithms and technologies also to future space missions and for the scientific analysis of archived data. Here after will be given an in-depth analysis study accompanied by implementation examples on ESA and ASI missions and some remarkable results fruit of decades of important experience reached by space agencies and research institutes in the field. Space applications software quality analysis is not different from other application contexts, among the hi-tech and hi-reliability fields. We describe here a Software Quality study in general, then we will focus on the quality of space mission software (s/w) with details on some notable cases., Comment: presentation at XVI Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie (National Conference on Planetary Sciences) held at Centro Culturale San Gaetano, via Altinate, 71, Padova, Italy on 3-7 February, 2020 Affiliation: University of Padova, 6 pages, 4 figures

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2020
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22. Enceladus as a potential oasis for life: Science goals and investigations for future explorations

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Choblet, Gaël, Tobie, Gabriel, Buch, Arnaud, Čadek, Ondrej, Barge, Laura M., Bēhounková, Marie, Camprubi, Eloi, Freissinet, Caroline, Hedman, Matt, Jones, Geraint, Lainey, Valery, Le Gall, Alice, Lucchetti, Alice, MacKenzie, Shannon, Mitri, Giuseppe, Neveu, Marc, Nimmo, Francis, Olsson-Francis, Karen, Panning, Mark, Postberg, Frank, Saur, Joachim, Schmidt, Jürgen, Sekine, Yasuhito, Shibuya, Takazo, Sotin, Christophe, Soucek, Ondrej, Szopa, Cyril, Usui, Tomohiro, Vance, Steven, and Van Hoolst, Tim

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2022
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23. Abundance and size-frequency distributions of boulders in Linne crater's ejecta (Moon)

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Pajola, Maurizio, Pozzobon, Riccardo, Lucchetti, Alice, Rossato, Sandro, Baratti, Emanuele, Galluzzi, Valentina, and Cremonese, Gabriele

Subjects
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

This paper presents the abundances and the size-frequency distributions (SFD) of the ejected boulders surrounding the Linne crater, located on the Moon's Mare Serenitatis basin. By means of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera high-resolution images we prepare a context geological map of the Linne crater as well as we identify 12000 boulders > 4.4 m, with a maximum measured size of 30.8 m. The cumulative number of boulders per km2 is fitted with a power-law curve with index -4.03 +0.09/-0.10. By studying the radial ejecta abundances, we find that the largest ones are located within the first 2 km from the crater's centre, while few tens of boulders with sizes < 8 m are detectable above 5 km from the crater's rim. We find that the Linne proximal ejecta blanket is slightly asymmetrical, as indicated in the geological map too, showing a density increase in the NE-SW direction. This may be the result of an oblique impact emplacement of the original impactor, or it may be explained with a perpendicular impact in the Mare Serenitatis location, but on a surface with lunar basalts with different local mechanical properties. By exploiting our boulders size density as a function of the distance from the crater's centre, we derive a possible regolith thickness at the Linne impact of 4.75 m, supporting similar values based on Earth-based radar and optical data in the Mare Serenitatis basin., Comment: Paper accepted by Planetary and Space Science Journal on 27 Nov 2018

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2018

25. Surface Exospheric Interactions

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Teolis, Ben, Sarantos, Menelaos, Schorghofer, Norbert, Jones, Brant, Grava, Cesare, Mura, Alessandro, Prem, Parvathy, Greenhagen, Ben, Capria, Maria Teresa, Cremonese, Gabriele, Lucchetti, Alice, and Galluzzi, Valentina

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2023
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29. The Dimorphos ejecta plume properties revealed by LICIACube

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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Dotto, Elisabetta, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Gai, Igor, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Poggiali, Giovanni, Rossi, Alessandro, Zanotti, Giovanni, Zinzi, Angelo, Bertini, Ivano, Brucato, John Robert, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Ivanovski, Stavro, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Amoroso, Marilena, Barnouin, Olivier, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Capannolo, Andrea, Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Chabot, Nancy, Cheng, Andy F., Cremonese, Gabriele, Fahnestock, Eugene G., Farnham, Tony, Ferrari, Fabio, Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Jutzi, Martin, Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, Michèle, Li, Jian-Yang, Lombardo, M., Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Raducan, Sabina D., Richardson, Derek C., Rivkin, Andy, Stickle, Angela M., Sunshine, Jessica M., Tortora, Paolo, Tusberti, Filippo, Zannoni, Marco, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Dotto, Elisabetta, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Gai, Igor, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Poggiali, Giovanni, Rossi, Alessandro, Zanotti, Giovanni, Zinzi, Angelo, Bertini, Ivano, Brucato, John Robert, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Ivanovski, Stavro, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Amoroso, Marilena, Barnouin, Olivier, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Capannolo, Andrea, Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Chabot, Nancy, Cheng, Andy F., Cremonese, Gabriele, Fahnestock, Eugene G., Farnham, Tony, Ferrari, Fabio, Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Jutzi, Martin, Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, Michèle, Li, Jian-Yang, Lombardo, M., Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Raducan, Sabina D., Richardson, Derek C., Rivkin, Andy, Stickle, Angela M., Sunshine, Jessica M., Tortora, Paolo, Tusberti, Filippo, and Zannoni, Marco

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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) had an impact with Dimorphos (a satellite of the asteroid Didymos) on 26 September 20221. Ground-based observations showed that the Didymos system brightened by a factor of 8.3 after the impact because of ejecta, returning to the pre-impact brightness 23.7 days afterwards2. Hubble Space Telescope observations made from 15 minutes after impact to 18.5 days after, with a spatial resolution of 2.1 kilometres per pixel, showed a complex evolution of the ejecta3, consistent with other asteroid impact events. The momentum enhancement factor, determined using the measured binary period change4, ranges between 2.2 and 4.9, depending on the assumptions about the mass and density of Dimorphos5. Here we report observations from the LUKE and LEIA instruments on the LICIACube cube satellite, which was deployed 15 days in advance of the impact of DART. Data were taken from 71 seconds before the impact until 320 seconds afterwards. The ejecta plume was a cone with an aperture angle of 140 ± 4 degrees. The inner region of the plume was blue, becoming redder with increasing distance from Dimorphos. The ejecta plume exhibited a complex and inhomogeneous structure, characterized by filaments, dust grains and single or clustered boulders. The ejecta velocities ranged from a few tens of metres per second to about 500 metres per second.

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2024

30. The bearing capacity of asteroid (65803) Didymos estimated from boulder tracks

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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Bigot, Jeanne, Lombardo, Pauline, Murdoch, Naomi, Scheeres, Daniel J., Vivet, Damien, Zhang, Yun, Sunshine, Jessica M., Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Barnouin, Olivier, Ernst, Carolyn, Daly, R. Terik, Sunday, Cecily, Michel, Patrick, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Rivkin, Andy, Chabot, Nancy, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Bigot, Jeanne, Lombardo, Pauline, Murdoch, Naomi, Scheeres, Daniel J., Vivet, Damien, Zhang, Yun, Sunshine, Jessica M., Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Barnouin, Olivier, Ernst, Carolyn, Daly, R. Terik, Sunday, Cecily, Michel, Patrick, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Rivkin, Andy, and Chabot, Nancy

Abstract

The bearing capacity - the ability of a surface to support applied loads - is an important parameter for understanding and predicting the response of a surface. Previous work has inferred the bearing capacity and trafficability of specific regions of the Moon using orbital imagery and measurements of the boulder tracks visible on its surface. Here, we estimate the bearing capacity of the surface of an asteroid for the first time using DART/DRACO images of suspected boulder tracks on the surface of asteroid (65803) Didymos. Given the extremely low surface gravity environment, special attention is paid to the underlying assumptions of the geotechnical approach. The detailed analysis of the boulder tracks indicates that the boulders move from high to low gravitational potential, and provides constraints on whether the boulders may have ended their surface motion by entering a ballistic phase. From the 9 tracks identified with sufficient resolution to estimate their dimensions, we find an average boulder track width and length of 8.9 1.5 m and 51.6 13.3 m, respectively. From the track widths, the mean bearing capacity of Didymos is estimated to be 70 N/m2, implying that every 1 m2 of Didymos’ surface at the track location can support only ~70 N of force before experiencing general shear failure. This value is at least 3 orders of magnitude less than the bearing capacity of dry sand on Earth, or lunar regolith.

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2024

31. Fast boulder fracturing by thermal fatigue detected on stony asteroids

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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Lucchetti, Alice, Cambioni, Saverio, Nakano, Ryota, Barnouin, Olivier, Pajola, Maurizio, Penasa, L., Tusberti, Filippo, Ramesh, K. T., Dotto, Elisabetta, Ernst, Carolyn, Daly, R. Terik, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Parro, Laura M., Poggiali, Giovanni, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Chabot, Nancy, Michel, Patrick, Murdoch, Naomi, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Karatekin, Ozgür, Rivkin, Andy, Sunshine, Jessica M., Kohout, Tomas, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Ieva, Simone, Beccarelli, Joel, Ivanovski, Stavro, Rossi, Alessandro, Ferrari, Fabio, Rossi, C., Raducan, Sabina D., Steckloff, Jordan, Schwartz, Stephen R., Brucato, John Robert, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Zinzi, Angelo, Cheng, Andy F., Amoroso, Marilena, Bertini, Ivano, Capannolo, Andrea, Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Cremonese, Gabriele, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Gai, Igor, Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Impresario, Gabriele, Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, Michèle, Lombardo, M., Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, Zanotti, Giovanni, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Lucchetti, Alice, Cambioni, Saverio, Nakano, Ryota, Barnouin, Olivier, Pajola, Maurizio, Penasa, L., Tusberti, Filippo, Ramesh, K. T., Dotto, Elisabetta, Ernst, Carolyn, Daly, R. Terik, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Parro, Laura M., Poggiali, Giovanni, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Chabot, Nancy, Michel, Patrick, Murdoch, Naomi, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Karatekin, Ozgür, Rivkin, Andy, Sunshine, Jessica M., Kohout, Tomas, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Ieva, Simone, Beccarelli, Joel, Ivanovski, Stavro, Rossi, Alessandro, Ferrari, Fabio, Rossi, C., Raducan, Sabina D., Steckloff, Jordan, Schwartz, Stephen R., Brucato, John Robert, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Zinzi, Angelo, Cheng, Andy F., Amoroso, Marilena, Bertini, Ivano, Capannolo, Andrea, Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Cremonese, Gabriele, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Gai, Igor, Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Impresario, Gabriele, Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, Michèle, Lombardo, M., Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, and Zanotti, Giovanni

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Spacecraft observations revealed that rocks on carbonaceous asteroids, which constitute the most numerous class by composition, can develop millimeter-to-meter-scale fractures due to thermal stresses. However, signatures of this process on the second-most populous group of asteroids, the S-complex, have been poorly constrained. Here, we report observations of boulders’ fractures on Dimorphos, which is the moonlet of the S-complex asteroid (65803) Didymos, the target of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) planetary defense mission. We show that the size-frequency distribution and orientation of the mapped fractures are consistent with formation through thermal fatigue. The fractures’ preferential orientation supports that these have originated in situ on Dimorphos boulders and not on Didymos boulders later transferred to Dimorphos. Based on our model of the fracture propagation, we propose that thermal fatigue on rocks exposed on the surface of S-type asteroids can form shallow, horizontally propagating fractures in much shorter timescales (100 kyr) than in the direction normal to the boulder surface (order of Myrs). The presence of boulder fields affected by thermal fracturing on near-Earth asteroid surfaces may contribute to an enhancement in the ejected mass and momentum from kinetic impactors when deflecting asteroids.

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2024

32. Evidence for multi-fragmentation and mass shedding of boulders on rubble-pile binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos

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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Pajola, Maurizio, Tusberti, Filippo, Lucchetti, Alice, Barnouin, Olivier, Cambioni, Saverio, Ernst, Carolyn, Dotto, Elisabetta, Daly, R. Terik, Poggiali, Giovanni, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Nakano, Ryota, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Chabot, Nancy, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Rivkin, Andy, Agrusa, Harrison F., Zhang, Yun, Penasa, L., Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Ivanovski, Stavro, Murdoch, Naomi, Rossi, Alessandro, Robin, Colas Q., Ieva, Simone, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Ferrari, Fabio, Raducan, Sabina D., Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Parro, Laura M., Benavídez, Paula Gabriela, Tancredi, Gonzalo, Karatekin, Ozgür, Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Sunshine, Jessica M., Farnham, Tony, Asphaug, Erik, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Beccarelli, Joel, Schwartz, Stephen R., Abell, Paul, Michel, Patrick, Cheng, Andy F., Brucato, John Robert, Zinzi, Angelo, Amoroso, Marilena, Pirrotta, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Bertini, Ivano, Capannolo, Andrea, Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Gai, Igor, Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, Michèle, Lombardo, M., Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, Zanotti, Giovanni, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Pajola, Maurizio, Tusberti, Filippo, Lucchetti, Alice, Barnouin, Olivier, Cambioni, Saverio, Ernst, Carolyn, Dotto, Elisabetta, Daly, R. Terik, Poggiali, Giovanni, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Nakano, Ryota, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Chabot, Nancy, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Rivkin, Andy, Agrusa, Harrison F., Zhang, Yun, Penasa, L., Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Ivanovski, Stavro, Murdoch, Naomi, Rossi, Alessandro, Robin, Colas Q., Ieva, Simone, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Ferrari, Fabio, Raducan, Sabina D., Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Parro, Laura M., Benavídez, Paula Gabriela, Tancredi, Gonzalo, Karatekin, Ozgür, Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Sunshine, Jessica M., Farnham, Tony, Asphaug, Erik, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Beccarelli, Joel, Schwartz, Stephen R., Abell, Paul, Michel, Patrick, Cheng, Andy F., Brucato, John Robert, Zinzi, Angelo, Amoroso, Marilena, Pirrotta, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Bertini, Ivano, Capannolo, Andrea, Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Gai, Igor, Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, Michèle, Lombardo, M., Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, and Zanotti, Giovanni

Abstract

Asteroids smaller than 10 km are thought to be rubble piles formed from the reaccumulation of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of parent bodies. Ground-based observations reveal that some of these asteroids are today binary systems, in which a smaller secondary orbits a larger primary asteroid. However, how these asteroids became binary systems remains unclear. Here, we report the analysis of boulders on the surface of the stony asteroid (65803) Didymos and its moonlet, Dimorphos, from data collected by the NASA DART mission. The size-frequency distribution of boulders larger than 5 m on Dimorphos and larger than 22.8 m on Didymos confirms that both asteroids are piles of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of their progenitors. Dimorphos boulders smaller than 5 m have size best-fit by a Weibull distribution, which we attribute to a multi-phase fragmentation process either occurring during coalescence or during surface evolution. The density per km2 of Dimorphos boulders ≥1 m is 2.3x with respect to the one obtained for (101955) Bennu, while it is 3.0x with respect to (162173) Ryugu. Such values increase once Dimorphos boulders ≥5 m are compared with Bennu (3.5x), Ryugu (3.9x) and (25143) Itokawa (5.1x). This is of interest in the context of asteroid studies because it means that contrarily to the single bodies visited so far, binary systems might be affected by subsequential fragmentation processes that largely increase their block density per km2. Direct comparison between the surface distribution and shapes of the boulders on Didymos and Dimorphos suggest that the latter inherited its material from the former. This finding supports the hypothesis that some asteroid binary systems form through the spin up and mass shedding of a fraction of the primary asteroid.

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2024

33. The geology and evolution of the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos

Author

Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Barnouin, Olivier, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Marchi, Simone, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Agrusa, Harrison F., Zhang, Yun, Ernst, Carolyn, Pajola, Maurizio, Tusberti, Filippo, Lucchetti, Alice, Daly, R. Terik, Palmer, Eric E., Walsh, Kevin J., Michel, Patrick, Sunshine, Jessica M., Rizos, Juan L., Farnham, Tony, Richardson, Derek C., Parro, Laura M., Murdoch, Naomi, Robin, Colas Q., Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Kahout, Tomas, Asphaug, Erik, Raducan, Sabina D., Jutzi, Martin, Ferrari, Fabio, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Chabot, Nancy, Li, Jian-Yang, Cheng, Andy F., Nolan, Michael C., Stickle, Angela M., Karatekin, Ozgür, Dotto, Elisabetta, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Rossi, Alessandro, Gai, Igor, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Bertini, Ivano, Zinzi, Angelo, Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Beccarelli, Joel, Ivanovski, Stavro, Brucato, John Robert, Poggiali, Giovanni, Zanotti, Giovanni, Amoroso, Marilena, Capannolo, Andrea, Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Lavagna, Michèle, Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, Rivkin, Andy, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Barnouin, Olivier, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, Marchi, Simone, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Agrusa, Harrison F., Zhang, Yun, Ernst, Carolyn, Pajola, Maurizio, Tusberti, Filippo, Lucchetti, Alice, Daly, R. Terik, Palmer, Eric E., Walsh, Kevin J., Michel, Patrick, Sunshine, Jessica M., Rizos, Juan L., Farnham, Tony, Richardson, Derek C., Parro, Laura M., Murdoch, Naomi, Robin, Colas Q., Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Kahout, Tomas, Asphaug, Erik, Raducan, Sabina D., Jutzi, Martin, Ferrari, Fabio, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Chabot, Nancy, Li, Jian-Yang, Cheng, Andy F., Nolan, Michael C., Stickle, Angela M., Karatekin, Ozgür, Dotto, Elisabetta, Della Corte, Vincenzo, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Rossi, Alessandro, Gai, Igor, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Bertini, Ivano, Zinzi, Angelo, Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Beccarelli, Joel, Ivanovski, Stavro, Brucato, John Robert, Poggiali, Giovanni, Zanotti, Giovanni, Amoroso, Marilena, Capannolo, Andrea, Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Lavagna, Michèle, Modenini, Dario, Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Tortora, Paolo, Zannoni, Marco, and Rivkin, Andy

Abstract

Images collected during NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide the first resolved views of the Didymos binary asteroid system. These images reveal that the primary asteroid, Didymos, is flattened and has plausible undulations along its equatorial perimeter. At high elevations, its surface is rough and contains large boulders and craters; at low elevations its surface is smooth and possesses fewer large boulders and craters. Didymos’ moon, Dimorphos, possesses an intimate mixture of boulders, several asteroid-wide lineaments, and a handful of craters. The surfaces of both asteroids include boulders that are large relative to their host body, suggesting that both asteroids are rubble piles. Based on these observations, our models indicate that Didymos has a surface cohesion ≤ 1 Pa and an interior cohesion of ∼10 Pa, while Dimorphos has a surface cohesion of <0.9 Pa. Crater size-frequency analyzes indicate the surface age of Didymos is 40–130 times older than Dimorphos, with likely absolute ages of ∼ 12.5 Myr and <0.3 Myr, respectively. Solar radiation could have increased Didymos’ spin rate leading to internal deformation and surface mass shedding, which likely created Dimorphos.

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2024

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

Author

Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Robin, Colas Q., Duchene, Alexia, Murdoch, Naomi, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Ernst, Carolyn, Daly, R. Terik, Barnouin, Olivier, Raducan, Sabina D., Michel, Patrick, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Stott, Alexander, Cuervo, Gabriela, Jawin, Erica R., Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Parro, Laura M., Sunday, Cecily, Vivet, Damien, Mimoun, David, Rivkin, Andy, Chabot, Nancy, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Robin, Colas Q., Duchene, Alexia, Murdoch, Naomi, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Ernst, Carolyn, Daly, R. Terik, Barnouin, Olivier, Raducan, Sabina D., Michel, Patrick, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Stott, Alexander, Cuervo, Gabriela, Jawin, Erica R., Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Parro, Laura M., Sunday, Cecily, Vivet, Damien, Mimoun, David, Rivkin, Andy, and Chabot, Nancy

Abstract

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 material are also important in the interpretation of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact. Here we perform a detailed morphological analysis of the surface boulders on Dimorphos using images, the primary data set available from the DART mission. We estimate the bulk angle of internal friction of the boulders to be 32.7 ± 2. 5° from our measurements of the roundness of the 34 best-resolved boulders ranging in size from 1.67–6.64 m. The elongated nature of the boulders around the DART impact site implies that they were likely formed through impact processing. Finally, we find striking similarities in the morphology of the boulders on Dimorphos with those on other rubble pile asteroids (Itokawa, Ryugu and Bennu). This leads to very similar internal friction angles across the four bodies and suggests that a common formation mechanism has shaped the boulders. Our results provide key inputs for understanding the DART impact and for improving our knowledge about the physical properties, the formation and the evolution of both near-Earth rubble-pile and binary asteroids.

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2024

35. VADER: Probing the Dark Side of Dimorphos with LICIACube LUKE

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Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Zinzi, Angelo, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Della Corte, Vincenzo, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Gai, Igor, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Rossi, Alessandro, Dotto, Elisabetta, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Daly, R. Terik, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Farnham, Tony, Ernst, Carolyn, Ivanovski, Stavro, Li, Jian-Yang, Parro, Laura M., Amoroso, Marilena, Beccarelli, Joel, Bertini, Ivano, Brucato, John Robert, Capannolo, Andrea, Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, Michèle, Lombardo, M., Modenini, Dario, Negri, B., Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Poggiali, Giovanni, Tortora, Paolo, Tusberti, Filippo, Zannoni, Marco, Zanotti, Giovanni, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Zinzi, Angelo, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Della Corte, Vincenzo, Deshapriya, J. D. Prasanna, Gai, Igor, Lucchetti, Alice, Pajola, Maurizio, Rossi, Alessandro, Dotto, Elisabetta, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Daly, R. Terik, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Farnham, Tony, Ernst, Carolyn, Ivanovski, Stavro, Li, Jian-Yang, Parro, Laura M., Amoroso, Marilena, Beccarelli, Joel, Bertini, Ivano, Brucato, John Robert, Capannolo, Andrea, Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Cremonese, Gabriele, Dall’Ora, Massimo, Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Ieva, Simone, Impresario, Gabriele, Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, Michèle, Lombardo, M., Modenini, Dario, Negri, B., Palumbo, Pasquale, Perna, Davide, Pirrotta, Simone, Poggiali, Giovanni, Tortora, Paolo, Tusberti, Filippo, Zannoni, Marco, and Zanotti, Giovanni

Abstract

The ASI cubesat LICIACube has been part of the first planetary defense mission DART, having among its scopes to complement the DRACO images to better constrain the Dimorphos shape. LICIACube had two different cameras, LEIA and LUKE, and to accomplish its goal, it exploited the unique possibility of acquiring images of the Dimorphos hemisphere not seen by DART from a vantage point of view, in both time and space. This work is indeed aimed at constraining the tridimensional shape of Dimorphos, starting from both LUKE images of the nonimpacted hemisphere of Dimorphos and the results obtained by DART looking at the impacted hemisphere. To this aim, we developed a semiautomatic Computer Vision algorithm, named VADER, able to identify objects of interest on the basis of physical characteristics, subsequently used as input to retrieve the shape of the ellipse projected in the LUKE images analyzed. Thanks to this shape, we then extracted information about the Dimorphos ellipsoid by applying a series of quantitative geometric considerations. Although the solution space coming from this analysis includes the triaxial ellipsoid found by using DART images, we cannot discard the possibility that Dimorphos has a more elongated shape, more similar to what is expected from previous theories and observations. The result of our work seems therefore to emphasize the unique value of the LICIACube mission and its images, making even clearer the need of having different points of view to accurately define the shape of an asteroid.

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2024

36. Recent collisional history of (65803) Didymos

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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Dell'Oro, Aldo, Parro, Laura M., Benavídez, Paula Gabriela, Jacobson, Seth A., Lucchetti, Alice, Marzari, Francesco, Michel, Patrick, Pajola, Maurizio, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Dell'Oro, Aldo, Parro, Laura M., Benavídez, Paula Gabriela, Jacobson, Seth A., Lucchetti, Alice, Marzari, Francesco, Michel, Patrick, Pajola, Maurizio, and Vincent, Jean-Baptiste

Abstract

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART, NASA) spacecraft revealed that the primary of the (65803) Didymos near-Earth asteroid (NEA) binary system is not exactly the expected spinning top shape observed for other km-size asteroids. Ground based radar observations predicted that such shape was compatible with the uncertainty along the direction of the asteroid spin axis. Indeed, Didymos shows crater and landslide features, and evidence for boulder motion at low equatorial latitudes. Altogether, the primary seems to have undergone sudden structural failure in its recent history, which may even result in the formation of the secondary. The high eccentricity of Didymos sets its aphelion distance inside the inner main belt, where it spends more than 1/3 of its orbital period and it may undergo many more collisions than in the NEA region. In this work, we investigate the collisional environment of this asteroid and estimate the probability of collision with multi-size potential impactors. We analyze the possibility that such impacts produced the surface features observed on Didymos by comparing collisional intervals with estimated times for surface destabilization by the Yarkovsky-O’Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect. We find that collisional effects dominate over potential local or global deformation due to YORP spin up.

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2024

37. Direct N-body Simulations of Satellite Formation around Small Asteroids: Insights from DART’s Encounter with the Didymos System

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Agrusa, Harrison F., primary, Zhang, Yun, additional, Richardson, Derek C., additional, Pravec, Petr, additional, Ćuk, Matija, additional, Michel, Patrick, additional, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, additional, Jacobson, Seth A., additional, Scheeres, Daniel J., additional, Walsh, Kevin, additional, Barnouin, Olivier, additional, Daly, R. Terik, additional, Palmer, Eric, additional, Pajola, Maurizio, additional, Lucchetti, Alice, additional, Tusberti, Filippo, additional, DeMartini, Joseph V., additional, Ferrari, Fabio, additional, Meyer, Alex J., additional, Raducan, Sabina D., additional, and Sánchez, Paul, additional

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2024
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38. Achievement of the Planetary Defense Investigations of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission

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Chabot, Nancy L., primary, Rivkin, Andrew S., additional, Cheng, Andrew F., additional, Barnouin, Olivier S., additional, Fahnestock, Eugene G., additional, Richardson, Derek C., additional, Stickle, Angela M., additional, Thomas, Cristina A., additional, Ernst, Carolyn M., additional, Terik Daly, R., additional, Dotto, Elisabetta, additional, Zinzi, Angelo, additional, Chesley, Steven R., additional, Moskovitz, Nicholas A., additional, Barbee, Brent W., additional, Abell, Paul, additional, Agrusa, Harrison F., additional, Bannister, Michele T., additional, Beccarelli, Joel, additional, Bekker, Dmitriy L., additional, Bruck Syal, Megan, additional, Buratti, Bonnie J., additional, Busch, Michael W., additional, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, additional, Chatelain, Joseph P., additional, Chocron, Sidney, additional, Collins, Gareth S., additional, Conversi, Luca, additional, Davison, Thomas M., additional, DeCoster, Mallory E., additional, Prasanna Deshapriya, J. D., additional, Eggl, Siegfried, additional, Espiritu, Raymond C., additional, Farnham, Tony L., additional, Ferrais, Marin, additional, Ferrari, Fabio, additional, Föhring, Dora, additional, Fuentes-Muñoz, Oscar, additional, Gai, Igor, additional, Giordano, Carmine, additional, Glenar, David A., additional, Gomez, Edward, additional, Graninger, Dawn M., additional, Green, Simon F., additional, Greenstreet, Sarah, additional, Hasselmann, Pedro H., additional, Herreros, Isabel, additional, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, additional, Husárik, Marek, additional, Ieva, Simone, additional, Ivanovski, Stavro L., additional, Jackson, Samuel L., additional, Jehin, Emmanuel, additional, Jutzi, Martin, additional, Karatekin, Ozgur, additional, Knight, Matthew M., additional, Kolokolova, Ludmilla, additional, Kumamoto, Kathryn M., additional, Küppers, Michael, additional, La Forgia, Fiorangela, additional, Lazzarin, Monica, additional, Li, Jian-Yang, additional, Lister, Tim A., additional, Lolachi, Ramin, additional, Lucas, Michael P., additional, Lucchetti, Alice, additional, Luther, Robert, additional, Makadia, Rahil, additional, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, additional, McMahon, Jay, additional, Merisio, Gianmario, additional, Merrill, Colby C., additional, Meyer, Alex J., additional, Michel, Patrick, additional, Micheli, Marco, additional, Migliorini, Alessandra, additional, Minker, Kate, additional, Modenini, Dario, additional, Moreno, Fernando, additional, Murdoch, Naomi, additional, Murphy, Brian, additional, Naidu, Shantanu P., additional, Nair, Hari, additional, Nakano, Ryota, additional, Opitom, Cyrielle, additional, Ormö, Jens, additional, Michael Owen, J., additional, Pajola, Maurizio, additional, Palmer, Eric E., additional, Palumbo, Pasquale, additional, Panicucci, Paolo, additional, Parro, Laura M., additional, Pearl, Jason M., additional, Penttilä, Antti, additional, Perna, Davide, additional, Petrescu, Elisabeta, additional, Pravec, Petr, additional, Raducan, Sabina D., additional, Ramesh, K. T., additional, Ridden-Harper, Ryan, additional, Rizos, Juan L., additional, Rossi, Alessandro, additional, Roth, Nathan X., additional, Rożek, Agata, additional, Rozitis, Benjamin, additional, Ryan, Eileen V., additional, Ryan, William H., additional, Sánchez, Paul, additional, Santana-Ros, Toni, additional, Scheeres, Daniel J., additional, Scheirich, Peter, additional, Berk Senel, Cem, additional, Snodgrass, Colin, additional, Soldini, Stefania, additional, Souami, Damya, additional, Statler, Thomas S., additional, Street, Rachel, additional, Stubbs, Timothy J., additional, Sunshine, Jessica M., additional, Tan, Nicole J., additional, Tancredi, Gonzalo, additional, Tinsman, Calley L., additional, Tortora, Paolo, additional, Tusberti, Filippo, additional, Walker, James D., additional, Waller, C. Dany, additional, Wünnemann, Kai, additional, Zannoni, Marco, additional, and Zhang, Yun, additional

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2024
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40. Near to Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of (65803) Didymos as Observed by JWST: Characterization Observations Supporting the Double Asteroid Redirection Test

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Rivkin, Andrew S., primary, Thomas, Cristina A., additional, Wong, Ian, additional, Rozitis, Benjamin, additional, de León, Julia, additional, Holler, Bryan, additional, Milam, Stefanie N., additional, Howell, Ellen S., additional, Hammel, Heidi B., additional, Arredondo, Anicia, additional, Brucato, John R., additional, Epifani, Elena M., additional, Ieva, Simone, additional, La Forgia, Fiorangela, additional, Lucas, Michael P., additional, Lucchetti, Alice, additional, Pajola, Maurizio, additional, Poggiali, Giovanni, additional, Sunshine, Jessica N., additional, and Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., additional

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2023
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41. Physical properties of asteroid Dimorphos as derived from the DART impact

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Raducan, Sabina, primary, Jutzi, Martin, additional, Cheng, Andy, additional, Zhang, Yun, additional, Barnouin, Olivier, additional, Collins, Gareth, additional, Daly, Ronald, additional, Davison, Thomas, additional, Ernst, Carolyn, additional, Farnham, Tony, additional, Ferrari, Fabio, additional, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, additional, Kumamoto, Kathryn, additional, Michel, Patrick, additional, Murdoch, Naomi, additional, Nakano, Ryota, additional, Pajola, Maurizio, additional, Rossi, Alessandro, additional, Agrusa, Harrison, additional, Barbee, Brent, additional, Syal, M. Bruck, additional, Chabot, Nancy, additional, Dotto, Elisabetta, additional, Fahnestock, Eugene, additional, Hasselmann, Pedro, additional, Herreros, M.I., additional, Ivanovski, Stavro, additional, Li, Jian-Yang, additional, Lucchetti, Alice, additional, Luther, Robert, additional, Ormö, Jens, additional, Owen, J., additional, Pravec, Petr, additional, Rivkin, Andrew, additional, Robin, C., additional, Sánchez, Paul, additional, Tusberti, Filippo, additional, Wünnemann, Kai, additional, Zinzi, Angelo, additional, Epifani, Elena Mazzotta, additional, Manzoni, C., additional, and May, B., additional

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2023
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42. The geology and evolution of a the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos.

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Barnouin, Olivier, primary, Ballouz, Ronald-Louis, additional, Marchi, Simone, additional, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, additional, Agrusa, Harrison, additional, Zhang, Yun, additional, Ernst, Carolyn, additional, Pajola, Maurizio, additional, Tusberti, Filippo, additional, Lucchetti, Alice, additional, Daly, R, additional, Palmer, Eric, additional, Walsh, Kevin, additional, Michel, Patrick, additional, Sunshine, Jessica, additional, Farnham, Tony, additional, Richardson, Derek, additional, Parro, Laura, additional, Murdoch, Naomi, additional, Robin, Colas, additional, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, additional, Kohout, Tomas, additional, Asphaug, Erik, additional, Raducan, S., additional, Jutzi, Martin, additional, Ferrari, Fabio, additional, Hasselmann, Pedro, additional, Bagatin, Adriano Campo, additional, Chabot, Nancy, additional, Li, Jian-Yang, additional, Cheng, Andrew, additional, Nolan, Micheal, additional, Stickle, Angela, additional, Karatekin, Ozgur, additional, Dotto, Elisabetta, additional, Corte, Vincenzo Della, additional, Epifani, Elena Mazzotta, additional, Rossi, Alessandro, additional, Gai, Igor, additional, Deshapriya, Prasanna, additional, Bertini, Ivano, additional, Zinzi, Angelo, additional, Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep, additional, Beccarelli, Joel, additional, Ivanovski, Stavro, additional, Brucato, John, additional, Poggiali, Giovanni, additional, Zanotti, Giovanni, additional, Amoroso, Marilena, additional, Capannolo, Andrea, additional, Cremonese, Gabriele, additional, Dall'Ora, Massimo, additional, Ieva, Simone, additional, Impresario, Gabriele, additional, Lavagna, Michelle, additional, Modenini, Dario, additional, Palumbo, Pasquale, additional, Perna, Davide, additional, Pirrotta, Simone, additional, Tortora, Paolo, additional, Zannoni, Marco, additional, and Rivkin, Andrew, additional

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2023
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45. Rationale for BepiColombo Studies of Mercury’s Surface and Composition

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Rothery, David A., Massironi, Matteo, Alemanno, Giulia, Barraud, Océane, Besse, Sebastien, Bott, Nicolas, Brunetto, Rosario, Bunce, Emma, Byrne, Paul, Capaccioni, Fabrizio, Capria, Maria Teresa, Carli, Cristian, Charlier, Bernard, Cornet, Thomas, Cremonese, Gabriele, D’Amore, Mario, De Sanctis, M. Cristina, Doressoundiram, Alain, Ferranti, Luigi, Filacchione, Gianrico, Galluzzi, Valentina, Giacomini, Lorenza, Grande, Manuel, Guzzetta, Laura G., Helbert, Jörn, Heyner, Daniel, Hiesinger, Harald, Hussmann, Hauke, Hyodo, Ryuku, Kohout, Tomas, Kozyrev, Alexander, Litvak, Maxim, Lucchetti, Alice, Malakhov, Alexey, Malliband, Christopher, Mancinelli, Paolo, Martikainen, Julia, Martindale, Adrian, Maturilli, Alessandro, Milillo, Anna, Mitrofanov, Igor, Mokrousov, Maxim, Morlok, Andreas, Muinonen, Karri, Namur, Olivier, Owens, Alan, Nittler, Larry R., Oliveira, Joana S., Palumbo, Pasquale, Pajola, Maurizio, Pegg, David L., Penttilä, Antti, Politi, Romolo, Quarati, Francesco, Re, Cristina, Sanin, Anton, Schulz, Rita, Stangarone, Claudia, Stojic, Aleksandra, Tretiyakov, Vladislav, Väisänen, Timo, Varatharajan, Indhu, Weber, Iris, Wright, Jack, Wurz, Peter, and Zambon, Francesca

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2020
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46. Successful kinetic impact into an asteroid for planetary defence

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Daly, R. Terik, primary, Ernst, Carolyn M., additional, Barnouin, Olivier S., additional, Chabot, Nancy L., additional, Rivkin, Andrew S., additional, Cheng, Andrew F., additional, Adams, Elena Y., additional, Agrusa, Harrison F., additional, Abel, Elisabeth D., additional, Alford, Amy L., additional, Asphaug, Erik I., additional, Atchison, Justin A., additional, Badger, Andrew R., additional, Baki, Paul, additional, Ballouz, Ronald-L., additional, Bekker, Dmitriy L., additional, Bellerose, Julie, additional, Bhaskaran, Shyam, additional, Buratti, Bonnie J., additional, Cambioni, Saverio, additional, Chen, Michelle H., additional, Chesley, Steven R., additional, Chiu, George, additional, Collins, Gareth S., additional, Cox, Matthew W., additional, DeCoster, Mallory E., additional, Ericksen, Peter S., additional, Espiritu, Raymond C., additional, Faber, Alan S., additional, Farnham, Tony L., additional, Ferrari, Fabio, additional, Fletcher, Zachary J., additional, Gaskell, Robert W., additional, Graninger, Dawn M., additional, Haque, Musad A., additional, Harrington-Duff, Patricia A., additional, Hefter, Sarah, additional, Herreros, Isabel, additional, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, additional, Huang, Philip M., additional, Hsieh, Syau-Yun W., additional, Jacobson, Seth A., additional, Jenkins, Stephen N., additional, Jensenius, Mark A., additional, John, Jeremy W., additional, Jutzi, Martin, additional, Kohout, Tomas, additional, Krueger, Timothy O., additional, Laipert, Frank E., additional, Lopez, Norberto R., additional, Luther, Robert, additional, Lucchetti, Alice, additional, Mages, Declan M., additional, Marchi, Simone, additional, Martin, Anna C., additional, McQuaide, Maria E., additional, Michel, Patrick, additional, Moskovitz, Nicholas A., additional, Murphy, Ian W., additional, Murdoch, Naomi, additional, Naidu, Shantanu P., additional, Nair, Hari, additional, Nolan, Michael C., additional, Ormö, Jens, additional, Pajola, Maurizio, additional, Palmer, Eric E., additional, Peachey, James M., additional, Pravec, Petr, additional, Raducan, Sabina D., additional, Ramesh, K. T., additional, Ramirez, Joshua R., additional, Reynolds, Edward L., additional, Richman, Joshua E., additional, Robin, Colas Q., additional, Rodriguez, Luis M., additional, Roufberg, Lew M., additional, Rush, Brian P., additional, Sawyer, Carolyn A., additional, Scheeres, Daniel J., additional, Scheirich, Petr, additional, Schwartz, Stephen R., additional, Shannon, Matthew P., additional, Shapiro, Brett N., additional, Shearer, Caitlin E., additional, Smith, Evan J., additional, Steele, R. Joshua, additional, Steckloff, Jordan K., additional, Stickle, Angela M., additional, Sunshine, Jessica M., additional, Superfin, Emil A., additional, Tarzi, Zahi B., additional, Thomas, Cristina A., additional, Thomas, Justin R., additional, Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., additional, Tropf, B. Teresa, additional, Vaughan, Andrew T., additional, Velez, Dianna, additional, Waller, C. Dany, additional, Wilson, Daniel S., additional, Wortman, Kristin A., additional, and Zhang, Yun, additional

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2023
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47. Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

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Li, Jian-Yang, primary, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, additional, Farnham, Tony L., additional, Sunshine, Jessica M., additional, Knight, Matthew M., additional, Tancredi, Gonzalo, additional, Moreno, Fernando, additional, Murphy, Brian, additional, Opitom, Cyrielle, additional, Chesley, Steve, additional, Scheeres, Daniel J., additional, Thomas, Cristina A., additional, Fahnestock, Eugene G., additional, Cheng, Andrew F., additional, Dressel, Linda, additional, Ernst, Carolyn M., additional, Ferrari, Fabio, additional, Fitzsimmons, Alan, additional, Ieva, Simone, additional, Ivanovski, Stavro L., additional, Kareta, Theodore, additional, Kolokolova, Ludmilla, additional, Lister, Tim, additional, Raducan, Sabina D., additional, Rivkin, Andrew S., additional, Rossi, Alessandro, additional, Soldini, Stefania, additional, Stickle, Angela M., additional, Vick, Alison, additional, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, additional, Weaver, Harold A., additional, Bagnulo, Stefano, additional, Bannister, Michele T., additional, Cambioni, Saverio, additional, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, additional, Chabot, Nancy L., additional, Cremonese, Gabriele, additional, Daly, R. Terik, additional, Dotto, Elisabetta, additional, Glenar, David A., additional, Granvik, Mikael, additional, Hasselmann, Pedro H., additional, Herreros, Isabel, additional, Jacobson, Seth, additional, Jutzi, Martin, additional, Kohout, Tomas, additional, La Forgia, Fiorangela, additional, Lazzarin, Monica, additional, Lin, Zhong-Yi, additional, Lolachi, Ramin, additional, Lucchetti, Alice, additional, Makadia, Rahil, additional, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, additional, Michel, Patrick, additional, Migliorini, Alessandra, additional, Moskovitz, Nicholas A., additional, Ormö, Jens, additional, Pajola, Maurizio, additional, Sánchez, Paul, additional, Schwartz, Stephen R., additional, Snodgrass, Colin, additional, Steckloff, Jordan, additional, Stubbs, Timothy J., additional, and Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., additional

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2023
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48. Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos

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Cheng, Andrew F., primary, Agrusa, Harrison F., additional, Barbee, Brent W., additional, Meyer, Alex J., additional, Farnham, Tony L., additional, Raducan, Sabina D., additional, Richardson, Derek C., additional, Dotto, Elisabetta, additional, Zinzi, Angelo, additional, Della Corte, Vincenzo, additional, Statler, Thomas S., additional, Chesley, Steven, additional, Naidu, Shantanu P., additional, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, additional, Li, Jian-Yang, additional, Eggl, Siegfried, additional, Barnouin, Olivier S., additional, Chabot, Nancy L., additional, Chocron, Sidney, additional, Collins, Gareth S., additional, Daly, R. Terik, additional, Davison, Thomas M., additional, DeCoster, Mallory E., additional, Ernst, Carolyn M., additional, Ferrari, Fabio, additional, Graninger, Dawn M., additional, Jacobson, Seth A., additional, Jutzi, Martin, additional, Kumamoto, Kathryn M., additional, Luther, Robert, additional, Lyzhoft, Joshua R., additional, Michel, Patrick, additional, Murdoch, Naomi, additional, Nakano, Ryota, additional, Palmer, Eric, additional, Rivkin, Andrew S., additional, Scheeres, Daniel J., additional, Stickle, Angela M., additional, Sunshine, Jessica M., additional, Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M., additional, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, additional, Walker, James D., additional, Wünnemann, Kai, additional, Zhang, Yun, additional, Amoroso, Marilena, additional, Bertini, Ivano, additional, Brucato, John R., additional, Capannolo, Andrea, additional, Cremonese, Gabriele, additional, Dall’Ora, Massimo, additional, Deshapriya, Prasanna J. D., additional, Gai, Igor, additional, Hasselmann, Pedro H., additional, Ieva, Simone, additional, Impresario, Gabriele, additional, Ivanovski, Stavro L., additional, Lavagna, Michèle, additional, Lucchetti, Alice, additional, Epifani, Elena M., additional, Modenini, Dario, additional, Pajola, Maurizio, additional, Palumbo, Pasquale, additional, Perna, Davide, additional, Pirrotta, Simone, additional, Poggiali, Giovanni, additional, Rossi, Alessandro, additional, Tortora, Paolo, additional, Zannoni, Marco, additional, and Zanotti, Giovanni, additional

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2023
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49. Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Li, Jian-Yang, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Farnham, Tony, Sunshine, Jessica M., Knight, Matthew M., Tancredi, Gonzalo, Moreno, Fernando, Murphy, Brian, Opitom, Cyrielle, Chesley, Steven, Scheeres, Daniel J., Thomas, Cristina, Fahnestock, Eugene G., Cheng, Andy F., Dressel, Linda, Ernst, Carolyn, Ferrari, Fabio, Fitzsimmons, Alan, Ieva, Simone, Ivanovski, Stavro, Kareta, Teddy, Kolokolova, Ludmilla, Lister, Tim, Raducan, Sabina D., Rivkin, Andy, Rossi, Alessandro, Soldini, Stefania, Stickle, Angela M., Vick, Alison, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Weaver, Harold A., Bagnulo, Stefano, Bannister, Michele T., Cambioni, Saverio, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Chabot, Nancy, Cremonese, Gabriele, Daly, R. Terik, Dotto, Elisabetta, Glenar, David A., Granvik, Mikael, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Herreros, Isabel, Jacobson, Seth A., Jutzi, Martin, Kohout, Tomas, La Forgia, Fiorangela, Lazzarin, Monica, Lin, Zhong-Yi, Lolachi, Ramin, Lucchetti, Alice, Makadia, Rahil, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Michel, Patrick, Migliorini, Alessandra, Moskovitz, Nicholas A., Ormö, Jens, Pajola, Maurizio, Sánchez, Paul, Schwartz, Stephen R., Snodgrass, Colin, Steckloff, Jordan, Stubbs, Timothy J., Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M., Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Li, Jian-Yang, Hirabayashi, Masatoshi, Farnham, Tony, Sunshine, Jessica M., Knight, Matthew M., Tancredi, Gonzalo, Moreno, Fernando, Murphy, Brian, Opitom, Cyrielle, Chesley, Steven, Scheeres, Daniel J., Thomas, Cristina, Fahnestock, Eugene G., Cheng, Andy F., Dressel, Linda, Ernst, Carolyn, Ferrari, Fabio, Fitzsimmons, Alan, Ieva, Simone, Ivanovski, Stavro, Kareta, Teddy, Kolokolova, Ludmilla, Lister, Tim, Raducan, Sabina D., Rivkin, Andy, Rossi, Alessandro, Soldini, Stefania, Stickle, Angela M., Vick, Alison, Vincent, Jean-Baptiste, Weaver, Harold A., Bagnulo, Stefano, Bannister, Michele T., Cambioni, Saverio, Campo Bagatin, Adriano, Chabot, Nancy, Cremonese, Gabriele, Daly, R. Terik, Dotto, Elisabetta, Glenar, David A., Granvik, Mikael, Hasselmann, Pedro H., Herreros, Isabel, Jacobson, Seth A., Jutzi, Martin, Kohout, Tomas, La Forgia, Fiorangela, Lazzarin, Monica, Lin, Zhong-Yi, Lolachi, Ramin, Lucchetti, Alice, Makadia, Rahil, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Michel, Patrick, Migliorini, Alessandra, Moskovitz, Nicholas A., Ormö, Jens, Pajola, Maurizio, Sánchez, Paul, Schwartz, Stephen R., Snodgrass, Colin, Steckloff, Jordan, Stubbs, Timothy J., and Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M.

Abstract

Some active asteroids have been proposed to be the result of impact events1. Because active asteroids are generally discovered serendipitously only after their tail formation, the process of the impact ejecta evolving into a tail has never been directly observed. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission2, apart from having successfully changed the orbital period of Dimorphos3, demonstrated the activation process of an asteroid from an impact under precisely known impact conditions. Here we report the observations of the DART impact ejecta with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) from impact time T+15 minutes to T+18.5 days at spatial resolutions of ~2.1 km per pixel. Our observations reveal a complex evolution of ejecta, which is first dominated by the gravitational interaction between the Didymos binary system and the ejected dust and later by solar radiation pressure. The lowest-speed ejecta dispersed via a sustained tail that displayed a consistent morphology with previously observed asteroid tails thought to be produced by impact4,5. The ejecta evolution following DART’s controlled impact experiment thus provides a framework for understanding the fundamental mechanisms acting on asteroids disrupted by natural impact1,6.

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2023

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