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most citedSuccessful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

270 citations · 620 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.EP20231 cited

Photometry of the Didymos system across the DART impact apparition

Nicholas Moskovitz, Cristina Thomas, Petr Pravec +78

On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos. This demonstrated the…

astro-ph.EP2023

Near-IR Spectral Observations of the Didymos System -- Daily Evolution Before and After the DART Impact, Indicates Dimorphos Originated from Didymos

David Polishook, Francesca E. DeMeo, Brian J. Burt +4

Ejecta from Dimorphos following the DART mission impact, significantly increased the brightness of the Didymos-Dimorphos system, allowing us to examine sub-surface material. We rep…

astro-ph.EP20232 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

Near to Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of (65803) Didymos as observed by JWST: Characterization Observations Supporting the Double Asteroid Redirection Test

Andrew S. Rivkin, Cristina A. Thomas, Ian Wong +17

The Didymos binary asteroid was the target of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which intentionally impacted Dimorphos, the smaller member of the binary system.…

astro-ph.EP2023270 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.EP2023164 cited

Orbital Period Change of Dimorphos Due to the DART Kinetic Impact

Cristina A. Thomas, Shantanu P. Naidu, Peter Scheirich +46

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully performed the first test of a kinetic impactor for asteroid deflection by impacting Dimorphos, the secondary of…