most citedSuccessful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

270 citations · 543 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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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.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.EP2022

After DART: Using the first full-scale test of a kinetic impactor to inform a future planetary defense mission

Thomas S. Statler, Sabina D. Raducan, Olivier S. Barnouin +38

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the first full-scale test of an asteroid deflection technology. Results from the hypervelocity kinetic impact and Earth-based obse…

astro-ph.EP2022

Effects of impact and target parameters on the results of a kinetic impactor: predictions for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

Angela M. Stickle, Mallory E. DeCoster, Christoph Burger +30

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will impact into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022 as a test of the kinetic impactor technique for planetary defen…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 44 cited

Influence of the projectile geometry on the momentum transfer from a kinetic impactor and implications for the DART mission

S. D. Raducan, M. Jutzi, T. M. Davison +5

The DART spacecraft will impact Didymos's secondary, Dimorphos, at the end of 2022 and cause a change in the orbital period of the secondary. For simplicity, most previous numerica…