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most citedSuccessful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

270 citations · 699 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.EP2024

New gravity field of comet 67P/C-G based on Rosetta's Doppler and optical data

Julien Laurent-Varin, Théo James, Jean-Charles Marty +3

We provide a new gravity field of Comet 67P-C/G up to degree 4. We detect mass heterogeneity in the comet nucleus. The loss of mass is restimated at 0.28\% of the comet's total mas…

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.EP2021★ 30 cited

Internal rubble properties of asteroid (101955) Bennu

P. Tricarico, D. J. Scheeres, A. S. French +24

Exploration of asteroid (101955) Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx mission has provided an in-depth look at this rubble-pile near-Earth asteroid. In particular, the measured gravity field an…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 141 cited

Gravitational slopes, geomorphology, and material strengths of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from OSIRIS observations

O. Groussin, L. Jorda, A. -T. Auger +49

We study the link between gravitational slopes and the surface morphology on the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and provide constraints on the mechanical properties of…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 52 cited

Olivine or Impact Melt: Nature of the "Orange" Material on Vesta from Dawn

Lucille Le Corre, Vishnu Reddy, Nico Schmedemann +18

NASA's Dawn mission observed a great variety of colored terrains on asteroid (4) Vesta during its survey with the Framing Camera (FC). Here we present a detailed study of the orang…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 28 cited

Lithologic Mapping of HED Terrains on Vesta using Dawn Framing Camera Color Data

Guneshwar Thangjam, Vishnu Reddy, Lucille Le Corre +8

The surface composition of Vesta, the most massive intact basaltic object in the asteroid belt, is interesting because it provides us with an insight into magmatic differentiation…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 178 cited

Delivery of Dark Material to Vesta via Carbonaceous Chondritic Impacts

Vishnu Reddy, Lucille Le Corre, David P. O'Brien +22

NASA's Dawn spacecraft observations of asteroid (4) Vesta reveal a surface with the highest albedo and color variation of any asteroid we have observed so far. Terrains rich in low…