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Enabling tomorrow's planetary defence and space resource economy: Autonomous fleet-based asteroid rendezvous missions
Stefania Soldini, Paul A. Abell, Daniel J. Scheeres +8
Asteroids preserve the solar system's earliest history and pose real threats to Earth. Strengthening the UK's capabilities to detect, track, and characterise Near-Earth Objects (NE…
A 3D thermophysical model for binary asteroid systems: Application to the BYORP effect on (175706) 1996 FG3
Kya C. Sorli, Paul O. Hayne, Rachel H. Cueva +3
Differential heating and radiation on asymmetric asteroids can cause measurable changes in their rotation rates and spin axes, known as the YORP effect. In binary systems, such rad…
An Earth Encounter As the Cause of Chaotic Dynamics in Binary Asteroid (35107) 1991VH
Alex J Meyer, Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz, Ioannis Gkolias +4
Among binary asteroids, (35107) 1991VH stands out as unique given the likely chaotic rotation within its secondary component. The source of this excited dynamical state is unknown.…
BYORP and Dissipation in Binary Asteroids: Lessons from DART
Matija Ćuk, Harrison Agrusa, Rachel H. Cueva +10
The Near-Earth binary asteroid Didymos was the target of a planetary defense demonstration mission DART in September 2022. The smaller binary component, Dimorphos, was impacted by…
Apsidal Precession in Binary Asteroids
Alex J Meyer, Daniel J Scheeres
While the secondary in a binary asteroid plays an important role in the precession of the mutual orbit, this role has not been thoroughly studied. Given the complex spin-orbit coup…
Structure of Periodic Orbit Families in the Hill Restricted 4-Body Problem
Gavin M. Brown, Luke T. Peterson, Damennick B. Henry +1
The Hill Restricted 4-Body Problem (HR4BP) is a coherent time-periodic model that can be used to represent motion in the Sun-Earth-Moon (SEM) system. Periodic orbits were computed…
Dynamics Around the Earth-Moon Triangular Points in the Hill Restricted 4-Body Problem
Luke T. Peterson, Gavin Brown, Àngel Jorba +1
This paper investigates the motion of a small particle moving near the triangular points of the Earth-Moon system. The dynamics are modeled in the Hill restricted 4-body problem (H…
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…
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…
The Yarkovsky and YORP Effects
D. Vokrouhlicky, W. F. Bottke, S. R. Chesley +2
The Yarkovsky effect describes a small but significant force that affects the orbital motion of meteoroids and asteroids smaller than kilometers in diameter. It is caused b…
The Design Reference Asteroid for the OSIRIS-REx Mission Target (101955) Bennu
Carl W. Hergenrother, Maria Antonietta Barucci, Olivier Barnouin +23
The Design Reference Asteroid (DRA) is a compilation of all that is known about the OSIRIS-REx mission target, asteroid (101955) Bennu. It contains our best knowledge of the proper…
Tangential component of the YORP effect
Oleksiy Golubov, Yurij N. Krugly
This article discusses how re-emission of absorbed solar light by centimeter- to decimeter-sized structures on the surface of an asteroid can create a component of the recoil force…
A 3-dimensional model of tangential YORP
O. Golubov, D. J. Scheeres, Yu. N. Krugly
Tangential YORP, or TYORP, has recently been demonstrated to be an important factor in the evolution of an asteroid's rotation state. It is complementary to normal YORP, or NYORP,…