Ejecta Mass Estimates from the DART Impact Plume Inferred from LICIACube Images

Ejecta Mass Estimates from the DART Impact Plume Inferred from LICIACube Images

We report ejecta mass estimates produced by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test impact with Dimorphos, the secondary of the Didymos asteroid binary system. This first demonstration of an asteroid deflection technique was witnessed by the Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube). T...

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Main Authors: Ramin Lolachi, David A. Glenar, Timothy J. Stubbs, Ludmilla Kolokolova, Olga Muñoz, Tony L. Farnham, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Pedro H. Hasselmann, Vincenzo Della Corte, J. D. Prasanna Deshapriya, Elisabetta Dotto, Elena Mazzotta Epifani, Alessandro Rossi, Angelo Zinzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Planetary Science Journal
Subjects:
Asteroids
Asteroid satellites
Impact phenomena
Near-Earth objects
Radiative transfer
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/adec6b
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