Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos.

AF, Cheng; HF, Agrusa; BW, Barbee; AJ, Meyer; TL, Farnham; SD, Raducan; DC, Richardson; E, Dotto; A, Zinzi; Corte V, Della; TS, Statler; S, Chesley; SP, Naidu; M, Hirabayashi; JY, Li; S, Eggl; OS, Barnouin; NL, Chabot; S, Chocron; GS, Collins; RT, Daly; TM, Davison; ME, DeCoster; CM, Ernst; F, Ferrari; DM, Graninger; SA, Jacobson; M, Jutzi; KM, Kumamoto; R, Luther; JR, Lyzhoft; P, Michel; N, Murdoch; R, Nakano; E, Palmer; AS, Rivkin; DJ, Scheeres; AM, Stickle; JM, Sunshine; JM, Trigo-Rodriguez; JB, Vincent; JD, Walker; K, Wünnemann; Y, Zhang; M, Amoroso; I, Bertini; JR, Brucato; A, Capannolo; G, Cremonese; M, Dall'Ora; PJD, Deshapriya; I, Gai; PH, Hasselmann; S, Ieva; G, Impresario; SL, Ivanovski; M, Lavagna; A, Lucchetti; EM, Epifani; D, Modenini; M, Pajola; P, Palumbo; D, Perna; S, Pirrotta; G, Poggiali; A, Rossi; P, Tortora; M, Zannoni; G, Zanotti

doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05878-z

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Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos.

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Cheng AF

Agrusa HF

Barbee BW

Abstract

The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed a kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, at 23:14 UTC on 26 September 2022 as a planetary defence test1. DART was the first hypervelocity impact experiment on an asteroid at size a...

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