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most citedSuccessful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense

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Hera Orbit Determination Covariance Analysis of Didymos Binary Asteroid with the Full Two-Body Problem

Edoardo Gramigna, Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Marco Zannoni +7

Standard planetary radio science analyses may be inadequate for accurately interpreting data from the Hera mission at the Didymos system due to the anticipated challenge posed by t…

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Rotation, spectral type, and albedo of the potentially hazardous asteroid (153814) 2001 WN Prior to the 2028 June close approach

Jin Beniyama, Alexey V. Sergeyev, Konstantinos Odysseas Xenos +6

The potentially hazardous asteroid (153814) 2001 WN will pass inside the lunar distance on June 26, 2028, offering a rare opportunity to characterize a kilometer-scale near-Ear…

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Refined rotational state and shape model of (98943) Torifune ahead of the Hayabusa2# flyby

P. Fatka, P. Pravec, P. Scheirich +4

The Hayabusa2# mission will perform a high-speed flyby of near-Earth asteroid (98943) Torifune on 5 July 2026, offering a rare opportunity to compare a pre-encounter spin and shape…

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JWST Observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 Rule Out a 2032 Lunar Impact and Demonstrate a New Regime for Planetary Defense Follow-up

Julien de Wit, Andrew S. Rivkin, Marco Micheli +12

At the end of its discovery apparition, the 60 m near-Earth object 2024 YR4 was associated with a non-zero probability of lunar impact during its 2032 December 22 close appro…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 4 cited

Astrometric follow-up of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 during a Torino scale level 3 alert

Marco Micheli, Maxime Devogèle, Larry Denneau +38

The discovery of 2024 YR4 presented the planetary defense community with the most significant impact threat in almost two decades, reaching level 3 on the Torino scale. The communi…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

A change of the rotation period of asteroid (65803) Didymos caused by the DART impact

Josef Durech, Petr Pravec, Masatoshi Hirabayashi +3

On 26 September 2022, the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the secondary component of the binary asteroid (65803)~Didymos. This experimen…