Orbital and Physical Characterization of Asteroid Dimorphos Following the DART Impact

Orbital and Physical Characterization of Asteroid Dimorphos Following the DART Impact

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted Dimorphos, the satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos, on 2022 September 26 UTC. We estimate the changes in the orbital and physical properties of the system due to the impact using ground-based photometric and radar obser...

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Main Authors: Shantanu P. Naidu, Steven R. Chesley, Nicholas Moskovitz, Cristina Thomas, Alex J. Meyer, Petr Pravec, Peter Scheirich, Davide Farnocchia, Daniel J. Scheeres, Marina Brozovic, Lance A. M. Benner, Andrew S. Rivkin, Nancy L. Chabot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Planetary Science Journal
Subjects:
Near-Earth objects
Asteroid satellites
Asteroid dynamics
Planetary science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad26e7

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https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad26e7

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