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most citedSuccessful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

270 citations · 720 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.EP2025★ 19 cited

JWST sighting of decameter main-belt asteroids and view on meteorite sources

Artem Y. Burdanov, Julien de Wit, Miroslav Brož +19

Asteroid discoveries are essential for planetary-defense efforts aiming to prevent impacts with Earth, including the more frequent megaton explosions from decameter impactors. Whil…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Volatile Composition and Activity Evolution of Main-Belt Comet 358P/PANSTARRS

Henry H. Hsieh, John W. Noonan, Michael S. P. Kelley +17

We report the detection of water vapor associated with main-belt comet 358P/PANSTARRS on UT 2024 January 8-9 using the NIRSPEC instrument aboard JWST. We derive a water production…

astro-ph.IM2024

Design and Performance of the Upgraded Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

Joseph L. Hora, David E. Trilling, Andy J. Lopez-Oquendo +12

We describe the new design and current performance of the Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). The system has been converted…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 270 cited

Successful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

R. Terik Daly, Carolyn M. Ernst, Olivier S. Barnouin +98

While no known asteroid poses a threat to Earth for at least the next century, the catalog of near-Earth asteroids is incomplete for objects whose impacts would produce regional de…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 164 cited

Orbital Period Change of Dimorphos Due to the DART Kinetic Impact

Cristina A. Thomas, Shantanu P. Naidu, Peter Scheirich +46

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully performed the first test of a kinetic impactor for asteroid deflection by impacting Dimorphos, the secondary of…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 230 cited

Compositional distributions and evolutionary processes for the near-Earth object population: Results from the MIT-Hawaii Near-Earth Object Spectroscopic Survey (MITHNEOS

Binzel R. P., DeMeo F. E., Turtelboom E. V. +19

We report measured spectral properties for more than 1000 NEOs, representing>5% of the currently discovered population. Thermal flux detected below 2.5 μm allows us to make albedo…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 37 cited

The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS): first photometric results

A. Thirouin, N. Moskovitz, R. P. Binzel +11

The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS) aims to physically characterize sub-km Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). We report first photometric results from the survey which…