DART Mission : Binary Asteroids Didymos & Dimorphos


Twitter thread index of DART mission


Crater Size Predictions of Asteroid Dimorphos


Pre-impact papers :

See only Angela Stickle's papers

See only Sabina Raducan papers


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Title - Global-scale Reshaping and Resurfacing of Asteroids by Small-scale Impacts, with Applications to the DART and Hera Missions

By - Sabina Raducan & Martin Jutzi, June 2022

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Title - Reshaping and ejection processes on rubble-pile asteroids by impacts

By - Sabina Raducan et al, Sept 2022

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Title - Effects of impact and target parameters on the results of a kinetic impactor: predictions for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

By - Angela Stickle et al, Sept 2022

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Title - Predicting asteroid material properties from a DART-like kinetic impact

By - Kathryn Kumamoto et al, Sept 2022

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Title - Spacecraft Geometry Effects on Kinetic Impactor Missions

By - Michael Owen et al, Sept 2022 (Sabina Raducan)

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Title - The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

By - Patrick Michel et al, July 2022 (Sabina Raducan,  Yun Zhang, Angela Stickle)

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Title - The effects of asteroid layering on ejecta mass-velocity distribution and implications for impact momentum transfer

By - SD Raducan et al, 2020

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Title - The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): Planetary Defense Investigations and Requirements

By - Andrew Rivkin et al, 2021

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Title - Dynamical Evolution of Ejecta from the DART Impact on Dimorphos

By - Alessandro Rossi et al, May 2022

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Title - Model of Double Asteroid Redirection Test Impact Ejecta Plume Observations

By - Andrew Cheng et al, June 2022 (SD Raducan, Angela Stickle)

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Title - The DART impact on the moon of the binary asteroid Didymos will change the orbital period AIDA DART asteroid deflection test: Planetary defense and science objectives

By - Andrew Cheng et al, 2018 (Angela Stickle)

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Title - The shape and structure of small asteroids as a result of sub-catastrophic collisions

By - Martin Jutzi, 2019

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Title - Momentum Enhancement during Kinetic Impacts in the Low-intermediate-strength Regime: Benchmarking and Validation of Impact Shock Physics Codes

By - Robert Luther et al, Oct 2022 (SD Raducan)

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Title - Ejecta Formation, Early Collisional Processes, and Dynamical Evolution after the DART Impact on Dimorphos

By - Fabio Ferrari et al, July 2022 (SD Raducan, Martin Jutzi)

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Title - Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): Structural and Dynamic Interactions between Asteroidal Elements of Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

By - Masatoshi Hirabayashi et al, Jun 2022 (Fabio Ferrari, Martin Jutzi, SD Raducan)

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Title - After DART: Using the First Full-scale Test of a Kinetic Impactor to Inform a Future Planetary Defense Mission

By - Thomas Statler et al, Oct 2022

Summary - The essence of kinetic impact is not merely that the impactor spacecraft deposits its own momentum on the target, but that the kinetic energy liberated in the hypervelocity collision excavates and ejects a large amount of material, the recoil impulse from which can exceed the directly delivered momentum, greatly enhancing the effect of the deflection.


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Title - Dynamical Evolution of the Didymos−Dimorphos Binary Asteroid as Rubble Piles following the DART Impact

By - Harrison Agrusa et al, July 2022

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Title - Pre-encounter Predictions of DART Impact Ejecta Behavior and Observability

By - Eugene Fahnestock et al, Sept 2022

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Title - Momentum Enhancement from a 3 cm Diameter Aluminum Sphere Striking a Small Boulder Assembly at 5.4 km /s

By - James Walker et al, Sept 2022 (about physical experiments)

Extracts - "larger size of the DART spacecraft compared to our 3.0 cm diameter impactor should increase β while the likely higher porosity of Dimorphos compared to our target will reduce β."  


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Title - NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): Mutual Orbital Period Change Due to Reshaping in the Near-Earth Binary Asteroid System (65803) Didymos

By - Ryota Nakano et al, July 2022

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Title - The Femtospacecraft Asteroid Impact Mission (Faim): A Low Cost Mission to Monitor the Dart Impact on the Didymoon

By - Marshall Eubanks, 2017

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Title - Predictions for the Dynamical States of the Didymos System before and after the Planned DART Impact

By - Derek Richardson et al, July 2022

Extracts - "The value of β resulting from the DART impact is expected to lie in the range from 1 to 5, based on impact modeling (Stickle et al. 2022)"

"In addition, the post-impact orbital period will fluctuate by anywhere on the order of tens of seconds to several minutes, on timescales ranging from a few days to months ..."


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Video Title - 21st Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group

By - Patrick Michel, 2019 YouTube video (Hera Investigation Team PI)

Summary - 8:48, crater morphology won't change over 3-4 years

Links - PDF Slides 


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Title - Rotation-induced granular motion on the secondary component of binary asteroids: Application to the DART impact on Dimorphos

By - Harrison Agrusa et al, Aug 2022

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Title - Boulder exhumation and segregation by impacts on rubble-pile asteroids

By - Ormo et al, Sept 2022 (SD Raducan, Martin Jutzi)

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Title - The role of asteroid strength, porosity and internal friction in impact momentum transfer

By - SD Raducan et al, 2019 (Davison, Collins, Luther)

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Title - The role of asteroid strength and porosity in impact momentum transfer

By - SD Raducan et al, 2017 (Davison, Collins)

Summary - For a porosity of 20%, which is the current best estimate for the Didymos system, crater radii ranged from 6m to 15m (crater diameter : 12 m to 30 m). While these are somewhat larger than previous estimates of crater size for the DART impact, that assumed higher target strengths, they lie between ... which appear to be the most appropriate analogs for porous rocky asteroid surfaces.



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Title - Ejecta distribution and momentum transfer from oblique impacts on asteroid surfaces

By - SD Raducan et al, March 2022 (Davison, Collins)

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Title - A hybrid SPH-SSDEM framework for end-to-end impact cratering modeling

By - Yun Zhang et al, March 2021

Summary - Matching simulations to Ryugu impact cratering


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Title - Impact cratering on small asteroids: Expectations and opportunities for AIM

By - GS Collins et al, 2016

Summary - The paper is one of many, inside the pdf. Search by name.



See only Sabina Raducan papers


Post-impact papers :


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Title - Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

By - Jian-Yang Li et al, Nov 2022

Summary - This paper shares observations of the impact ejecta with the Hubble Space Telescope from impact time (T)+15 minutes to T+18.5 days. The dust ejected at speeds much higher than the escape speed of the binary system (0.25 m/s) is directly ejected out of the system. The dust ... displayed signatures of gravitational interaction with the binary asteroid system, forming spirals and extended features. Slow ejecta is ultimately pushed in the antisolar direction (nearly opposite the impact direction) by solar radiation pressure to form a tail. The possible mechanisms of the secondary dust emission could include the re-impact of ejecta blocks onto Dimorphos or Didymos, or large ejecta blocks disintegrating into small pieces due to spin up or mutual collisions.


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Title - Momentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos

By - Andrew Cheng et al, March 2023

Summary - DART impact slowed down Dimorphos by 2.7 mm/s, indicating that the recoil from the ejecta amplified the momentum change by a factor of 2.2 to 4.9 (depending on the mass of Dimorphos). If Dimorphos and Didymos are assumed to have equal densities of 2,400 kg/m^3, then β=3.61. Bulk density for Dimorphos varies from 1,500 to 3,300 kg/m^3.

News - JHUAPL Press Release 


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Title - Morphology and spectral properties of the DART impact ejecta with VLT/MUSE

By - Opitom et al, 2023

Summary - Dimorphos seems to be a dry asteroid - no water or oxygen detected in the spectra of ejecta. There was also no evidence of traces of the hydrazine fuel that was on board DART, nor the xenon from its ion engine, although given their small quantities the non-detection is not a surprise.

News - ESO , Space.com


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Title - Optical spectropolarimetry of binary asteroid Didymos-Dimorphos before and after the DART impact

By - Stefano Bagnulo et al, 2023

Summary - .

News - ESO 


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Title - Light Curves and Colors of the Ejecta from Dimorphos after the DART Impact

By - Ariel Graykowski et al, 2023

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Title - Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

By - Jian-Yang Li et al, 2023

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Title - Orbital Period Change of Dimorphos Due to the DART Kinetic Impact

By - Cristina Thomas et al, 2023

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Title - ALMA Observations of the DART Impact: Characterizing the Ejecta at Sub-Millimeter Wavelengths

By - Nathan Roth et al, 2023

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Title - The Dimorphos Boulder Swarm

By - David Jewitt et al, July 2023

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