Ejecta Evolution Following a Planned Impact into an Asteroid: The First Five Weeks

The impact of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft into Dimorphos, moon of the asteroid Didymos, changed Dimorphos’s orbit substantially, largely from the ejection of material. We present results from 12 Earth-based facilities involved in a world-wide campaign to monitor the brightness an...

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Published in:	The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Main Authors:	Theodore Kareta, Cristina Thomas, Jian-Yang Li, Matthew M. Knight, Nicholas Moskovitz, Agata Rożek, Michele T. Bannister, Simone Ieva, Colin Snodgrass, Petr Pravec, Eileen V. Ryan, William H. Ryan, Eugene G. Fahnestock, Andrew S. Rivkin, Nancy Chabot, Alan Fitzsimmons, David Osip, Tim Lister, Gal Sarid, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Tony Farnham, Gonzalo Tancredi, Patrick Michel, Richard Wainscoat, Rob Weryk, Bonnie Burrati, Jana Pittichová, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Nicole J. Tan, Paul Tristram, Tyler Brown, Mariangela Bonavita, Martin Burgdorf, Elahe Khalouei, Penelope Longa, Markus Rabus, Sedighe Sajadian, Uffe Graae Jorgensen, Martin Dominik, Jean-Baptiste Kikwaya, Elena Mazzotta Epifani, Elisabetta Dotto, Prasanna Deshapriya, Pedro Hasselmann, Massimo Dall’Ora, Lyu Abe, Tristan Guillot, Djamel Mékarnia, Abdelkrim Agabi, Philippe Bendjoya, Olga Suarez, Amaury Triaud, Thomas Gasparetto, Maximillian N. Günther, Michael Kueppers, Bruno Merin, Joseph Chatelain, Edward Gomez, Helen Usher, Cai Stoddard-Jones, Matthew Bartnik, Michael Bellaver, Brenna Chetan, Emma Dugan, Tori Fallon, Jeremy Fedewa, Caitlyn Gerhard, Seth A. Jacobson, Shane Painter, David-Michael Peterson, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Cody Smith, Kirill V. Sokolovsky, Hannah Sullivan, Kate Townley, Sarah Watson, Levi Webb, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M. Llenas, Ignacio Pérez-García, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Alessandra Migliorini, Monica Lazzarin, Fiorangela La Forgia, Fabio Ferrari, Tom Polakis, Brian Skiff
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Subjects:	Asteroids Near-Earth objects Impact phenomena Asteroid satellites
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad0fdd