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most citedSuccessful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

270 citations · 523 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

A change of the rotation period of asteroid (65803) Didymos caused by the DART impact

Josef Durech, Petr Pravec, Masatoshi Hirabayashi +3

On 26 September 2022, the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the secondary component of the binary asteroid (65803)~Didymos. This experimen…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Characterization of of (98943) 2001 CC, the target of Hayabusa2

Marcel M. Popescu, Eri Tatsumi, Javier Licandro +11

The near-Earth asteroid (98943) Torifune, previously designated 2001 CC, is the flyby target of the Hayabusa2 extended mission, nicknamed Hayabusa2 (SHARP: Small Hazardo…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 19 cited

Lessons learned from NASA's DART impact about disrupting rubble-pile asteroids

S. D. Raducan, M. Jutzi, C. C. Merrill +4

We present a series of numerical simulations using a shock physics smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code, investigating energetic impacts on small celestial bodies characteris…

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…