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most citedMomentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos

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astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Impact disruption of Bjurböle porous chondritic projectile

Tomas Kohout, Maurizio Pajola, Assi-Johanna Soini +10

The ~200 m/s impact of a single 400-kg Bjurböle L/LL ordinary chondrite meteorite onto sea ice resulted in the catastrophic disruption of the projectile. This resulted in a signifi…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 21 cited

Perturbed Initial Orbit Determination

Alberto Fossà, Matteo Losacco, Roberto Armellin

An algorithm for robust initial orbit determination (IOD) under perturbed orbital dynamics is presented. By leveraging map inversion techniques defined in the algebra of Taylor pol…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 229 cited

Momentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos

Andrew F. Cheng, Harrison F. Agrusa, Brent W. Barbee +66

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 Sep…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 20 cited

Constraints on the structure and seasonal variations of Triton's atmosphere from the 5 October 2017 stellar occultation and previous observations

J. Marques Oliveira, B. Sicardy, A. R. Gomes-Júnior +234

A stellar occultation by Neptune's main satellite, Triton, was observed on 5 October 2017 from Europe, North Africa, and the USA. We derived 90 light curves from this event, 42 of…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 52 cited

Small Solar System Bodies as granular media

D. Hestroffer, P. Sánchez, L. Staron +12

Asteroids and other Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs) are of high general and scientific interest in many aspects. The origin, formation, and evolution of our Solar System (and oth…