Characterization of the Ejecta from the NASA/DART Impact on Dimorphos: Observations and Monte Carlo Models

Characterization of the Ejecta from the NASA/DART Impact on Dimorphos: Observations and Monte Carlo Models

The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully crashed on Dimorphos, the secondary component of the binary (65803) Didymos system. Following the impact, a large dust cloud was released, and a long-lasting dust tail developed. We have extensively monitored the dust tail from...

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Main Authors: Fernando Moreno, Adriano Campo Bagatin, Gonzalo Tancredi, Jian-Yang Li, Alessandro Rossi, Fabio Ferrari, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Eugene Fahnestock, Alain Maury, Robert Sandness, Andrew S. Rivkin, Andy Cheng, Tony L. Farnham, Stefania Soldini, Carmine Giordano, Gianmario Merisio, Paolo Panicucci, Mattia Pugliatti, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Emilio Fernández-García, ignacio Pérez-García, Stavro Ivanovski, Antti Penttila, Ludmilla Kolokolova, Javier Licandro, Olga Muñoz, Zuri Gray, Jose L. Ortiz, Zhong-Yi Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Planetary Science Journal
Subjects:
Asteroid dynamics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ace827

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