3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Recent advances in modelling of global-scale collisions using smoothed particle hydrodynamics
Christian Reinhardt, Sabina D. Raducan, Thomas Meier +3
Impacts play a fundamental role in shaping the physical and chemical properties of the objects in our Solar System. Given the challenges in replicating such collisions through labo…
astro-ph.EP2025
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.EP2025
The Dynamical State of the Didymos System Before and After the DART Impact
Derek C. Richardson, Harrison F. Agrusa, Brent Barbee +50
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of (65803) Didymos, on 2022 September 26, as a first successful test of kinetic…