The ESA Hera mission: detailed characterization of the DART impact outcome and of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos

P Michel, M Küppers, AC Bagatin, B Carry… - The planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Hera is a planetary defense mission under development in the Space Safety and Security
Program of the European Space Agency for launch in 2024 October. It will rendezvous in …

Asteroid families: properties, recent advances, and future opportunities

B Novaković, D Vokrouhlický, F Spoto… - Celestial Mechanics and …, 2022 - Springer
Collisions are one of the key processes sha** planetary systems. Asteroid families are
outcomes of such collision still identifiable across our solar system. The families provide a …

Shapes, structures, and evolution of small bodies

Y Zhang, P Michel - Astrodynamics, 2021 - Springer
Small bodies are among the best tracers of our Solar System's history. A large number of
space missions to small bodies (past and future) offer a unique opportunity to use these …

Compositional distributions and evolutionary processes for the near-Earth object population: Results from the MIT-Hawaii Near-Earth Object Spectroscopic Survey …

RP Binzel, FE DeMeo, EV Turtelboom, SJ Bus… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
Advancing technology in near-infrared instrumentation and dedicated planetary telescope
facilities have enabled nearly two decades of reconnoitering the spectral properties for near …

NEOMOD: a new orbital distribution model for near-Earth objects

D Nesvorný, R Deienno, WF Bottke… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are a transient population of small bodies with orbits
near or in the terrestrial planet region. They represent a mid-stage in the dynamical cycle of …

Science with the 2.5-meter wide field survey telescope (WFST)

T Wang, G Liu, Z Cai, J Geng, M Fang, H He… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying
facility being built jointly by University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the …

Tuning the legacy survey of space and time (LSST) observing strategy for solar system science

ME Schwamb, RL Jones, P Yoachim… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to start the Legacy Survey of Space and
Time (LSST) in early to mid-2025. This multiband wide-field synoptic survey will transform …

The Lidov-Kozai oscillation and hugo von Zeipel

T Ito, K Ohtsuka - arxiv preprint arxiv:1911.03984, 2019 - arxiv.org
The so-called Lidov-Kozai oscillation is very well known and applied to various problems in
solar system dynamics. This mechanism makes the orbital inclination and eccentricity of the …

The near-Earth object surveyor mission

AK Mainzer, JR Masiero, PA Abell… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a NASA Observatory designed to
discover and characterize asteroids and comets. The mission's primary objective is to find …

Connecting asteroids and meteorites with visible and near-infrared spectroscopy

FE DeMeo, BJ Burt, M Marsset, D Polishook… - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work we identify spectral similarities between asteroids and meteorites. Using spectral
features such as absorption bands and spectral curvature, we identify spectral matches …