3 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
Tony L. Farnham, Jessica M. Sunshine, Masatoshi Hirabayashi +44
On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstratio…
astro-ph.EP2025
Radio Science Investigations for the Heavy Metal Mission to Asteroid (216) Kleopatra
Paolo Tortora, Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Edoardo Gramigna +3
This work presents the simulation results of the radio science experiment onboard the proposed Heavy Metal mission to the M-type asteroid (216) Kleopatra. Earth-based radiometric m…
astro-ph.EP2025
Ephemeris Reconstruction for Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko During Rosetta Proximity Phase from Radiometric Data Analysis
Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Marco Zannoni, Paolo Tortora +3
This study provides a continuous ephemeris reconstruction for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by reanalyzing Rosetta radiometric measurements and Earth-based astrometry. Given the…