4 papers
Milani and Juventas Optical Navigation Images in Support of the Hera Radio Science Experiment
Edoardo Gramigna, Ozgur Karatekin, Birgit Ritter +7
The European Space Agency's Hera mission aims to advance planetary defense by investigating the Didymos binary asteroid system following NASA's DART impact on Dimorphos. Incorporat…
Low-energy ring particle accretion as the origin of Pan's equatorial ridge
Marco Baj, Iosto Fodde, Lucia Francesca Civati +1
Pan is a small Saturnian satellite embedded within the planet's A ring, characterized by a polygonal equatorial ridge whose formation mechanism remains debated. A proposed explanat…
Exploring tidal dissipation in rubble pile binary secondaries using a discrete element model
Ethan R. Burnett, Iosto Fodde, Fabio Ferrari
In this work, models of rubble pile binary secondaries are simulated in different spin states in a system similar in size and scale to Didymos-Dimorphos. The numerical modeling is…
Design and Analysis of Robust Ballistic Landings on the Secondary of a Binary Asteroid
Iosto Fodde, Jinglang Feng, Massimiliano Vasile +1
ESA's Hera mission aims to visit binary asteroid Didymos in late 2026, investigating its physical characteristics and the result of NASA's impact by the DART spacecraft in more det…