Dimorphos Orbit Determination from Mutual Events Photometry

Dimorphos Orbit Determination from Mutual Events Photometry

The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft successfully impacted the Didymos–Dimorphos binary asteroid system on 2022 September 26 UTC. We provide an update to its preimpact mutual orbit and estimate the postimpact physical and orbital parameters, derived using ground-based photometric obs...

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Main Authors: Peter Scheirich, Petr Pravec, Alex J. Meyer, Harrison F. Agrusa, Derek C. Richardson, Steven R. Chesley, Shantanu P. Naidu, Cristina Thomas, Nicholas A. Moskovitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Planetary Science Journal
Subjects:
Asteroid dynamics
Asteroid satellites
Near-Earth objects
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad12cf

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https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad12cf

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