Although no known asteroid poses a threat to Earth for at least the next century, the
catalogue of near-Earth asteroids is incomplete for objects whose impacts would produce …

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 …

Asteroids smaller than 10 km are thought to be rubble piles formed from the reaccumulation
of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of parent bodies. Ground-based …

Spacecraft observations revealed that rocks on carbonaceous asteroids, which constitute
the most numerous class by composition, can develop millimeter-to-meter-scale fractures …

Planetary defense efforts rely on estimates of the mechanical properties of asteroids, which
are difficult to constrain accurately from Earth. The mechanical properties of asteroid …

The bearing capacity-the ability of a surface to support applied loads-is an important
parameter for understanding and predicting the response of a surface. Previous work has …

Abstract We present deep Hubble Space Telescope images taken to examine the ejecta
from the DART spacecraft impact into asteroid Dimorphos. The images reveal an extensive …

Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will impact into the
asteroid Dimorphos on 2022 September 26 as a test of the kinetic impactor technique for …

Images collected during NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide
the first resolved views of the Didymos binary asteroid system. These images reveal that the …

On September 26th 2022, LICIACube monitored Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
mission impact on asteroid Dimorphos, which is the smaller component of a binary asteroid …