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most citedSuccessful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

270 citations · 512 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta

Tony L. Farnham, Jessica M. Sunshine, Masatoshi Hirabayashi +44

On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstratio…

astro-ph.EP2024

New Candidates for Organic-rich Regions on Ceres

J. L. Rizos, J. M. Sunshine, R. T. Daly +7

We explore the spatial distribution of organics on Ceres using the visible and near-infrared data collected by the Dawn mission. We employ a spectral mixture analysis (SMA) approac…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

Towards Prebiotic Chemistry on Titan: Impact experiments on organic haze particles

Ben K. D. Pearce, Sarah M. Hörst, Christopher J. Cline +7

Impacts are critical to producing the aqueous environments necessary to stimulate prebiotic chemistry on Titan's surface. Furthermore, organic hazes resting on the surface are a li…

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…