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most citedMomentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos

229 citations · 236 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP2026

In-flight calibration of ESA Hera's HyperScout-H imager

G. P. Prodan, M. Popescu, J. de León +21

ESA's Hera space mission is on its way to the mission target, the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos. HyperScout-H, one of the instruments onboard Hera, is a hyperspectral imager oper…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

HyperScout-H: the hyperspectral imager for the ESA Hera mission

Marcel M. Popescu, Julia de León, George Pantelimon Prodan +16

The HyperScout-H (HS-H) instrument is one of the payloads aboard ESA's Hera spacecraft. Hera is a planetary defence mission that aims to provide a detailed characterization of the…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Macro-scale roughness reveals the complex history of asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos

Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Erik Asphaug, Olivier Barnouin +22

Morphological mapping is a fundamental step in studying the processes that shaped an asteroid surface. Yet, it is challenging and often requires multiple independent assessments by…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 2 cited

Ejecta Evolution Following a Planned Impact into an Asteroid: The First Five Weeks

Theodore Kareta, Cristina Thomas, Jian-Yang Li +85

The impact of the DART spacecraft into Dimorphos, moon of the asteroid Didymos, changed Dimorphos' orbit substantially, largely from the ejection of material. We present results fr…

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…