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20152023
most citedThe Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons

485 citations · 705 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.EP2023

The Perturbed Full Two-Body Problem: Application to Post-DART Didymos

Alex J. Meyer, Harrison F. Agrusa, Derek C. Richardson +19

With the successful impact of the NASA DART spacecraft in the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid system, we provide an initial analysis of the post-impact perturbed binary asteroid…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 119 cited

Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

Jian-Yang Li, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Tony L. Farnham +61

Some active asteroids have been proposed to be the result of impact events. Because active asteroids are generally discovered serendipitously only after their tail formation, the p…

astro-ph.IM2021

Mercury Lander: Planetary Mission Concept Study for the 2023-2032 Decadal Survey

Carolyn M. Ernst, Sanae Kubota, Nancy Chabot +21

As an end-member of terrestrial planet formation, Mercury holds unique clues about the original distribution of elements in the earliest stages of solar system development and how…

astro-ph.EP2021

Persephone: A Pluto-System Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer

Carly Howett, Stuart Robbins, Bryan J. Holler +40

Persephone is a NASA concept mission study that addresses key questions raised by New Horizons' encounters with Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), with arguably the most important being "…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 6 cited

Using Dust Shed from Asteroids as Microsamples to Link Remote Measurements with Meteorite Classes

Barbara A. Cohen, Jamey R. Szalay, Andrew S. Rivkin +6

Given the compositional diversity of asteroids, and their distribution in space, it is impossible to consider returning samples from each one to establish their origin. However, th…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 1 cited

Asteroid Ryugu Before the Hayabusa2 Encounter

Koji Wada, Matthias Grott, Patrick Michel +31

Asteroid (162173) Ryugu is the target object of Hayabusa2, an asteroid exploration and sample return mission led by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Ground-based observat…