Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 2023
Historique:
received: 19 11 2022
accepted: 08 02 2023
medline: 21 4 2023
pubmed: 2 3 2023
entrez: 1 3 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Some active asteroids have been proposed to be formed as a result of impact events

Identifiants

pubmed: 36858074
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05811-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-05811-4
pmc: PMC10115637
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

452-456

Subventions

Organisme : NASA
ID : 80MSFC20D0004
Pays : United States
Organisme : NASA
ID : HST-GO-16674
Pays : United States
Organisme : NASA
ID : NAS 5-26555
Pays : United States
Organisme : NASA
ID : 80NSSC21K1131
Pays : United States
Organisme : NASA
ID : 80GSFC21M0002
Pays : United States
Organisme : NASA
ID : 80NSSC22K1173
Pays : United States

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Jian-Yang Li (JY)

Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA. jyli@psi.edu.

Masatoshi Hirabayashi (M)

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.

Tony L Farnham (TL)

Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

Jessica M Sunshine (JM)

Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

Matthew M Knight (MM)

Physics Department, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA.

Gonzalo Tancredi (G)

Departamento de Astronomía, Facultad de Ciencias, Udelar, Uruguay.

Fernando Moreno (F)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Granada, Spain.

Brian Murphy (B)

University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK.

Cyrielle Opitom (C)

University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK.

Steve Chesley (S)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Daniel J Scheeres (DJ)

Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

Cristina A Thomas (CA)

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

Eugene G Fahnestock (EG)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Andrew F Cheng (AF)

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA.

Linda Dressel (L)

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Carolyn M Ernst (CM)

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA.

Fabio Ferrari (F)

Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

Alan Fitzsimmons (A)

School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Simone Ieva (S)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Rome, Italy.

Stavro L Ivanovski (SL)

INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.

Theodore Kareta (T)

Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Ludmilla Kolokolova (L)

Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

Tim Lister (T)

Las Cumbres Observatory, Goleta, CA, USA.

Sabina D Raducan (SD)

Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Andrew S Rivkin (AS)

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA.

Stefania Soldini (S)

Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Angela M Stickle (AM)

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA.

Alison Vick (A)

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Jean-Baptiste Vincent (JB)

DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany.

Harold A Weaver (HA)

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA.

Stefano Bagnulo (S)

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, Armagh, UK.

Michele T Bannister (MT)

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Saverio Cambioni (S)

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Adriano Campo Bagatin (A)

Instituto de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.

Nancy L Chabot (NL)

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA.

Gabriele Cremonese (G)

INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padua, Italy.

R Terik Daly (RT)

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA.

Elisabetta Dotto (E)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Rome, Italy.

David A Glenar (DA)

Center for Space Science and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

Mikael Granvik (M)

Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Asteroid Engineering Laboratory, Luleå University of Technology, Kiruna, Sweden.

Pedro H Hasselmann (PH)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Rome, Italy.

Isabel Herreros (I)

Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain.

Seth Jacobson (S)

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

Martin Jutzi (M)

Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Tomas Kohout (T)

Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Fiorangela La Forgia (F)

Dipartimento di Fisica e, Astronomia-Padova University, Padua, Italy.

Monica Lazzarin (M)

Dipartimento di Fisica e, Astronomia-Padova University, Padua, Italy.

Zhong-Yi Lin (ZY)

Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.

Ramin Lolachi (R)

Center for Space Science and Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

Alice Lucchetti (A)

INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padua, Italy.

Rahil Makadia (R)

Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.

Elena Mazzotta Epifani (E)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Rome, Italy.

Patrick Michel (P)

Laboratoire Lagrange, Université Côte d'Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Nice, France.

Alessandra Migliorini (A)

INAF - Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome, Italy.

Nicholas A Moskovitz (NA)

Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.

Jens Ormö (J)

Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain.

Maurizio Pajola (M)

INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padua, Italy.

Paul Sánchez (P)

Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

Stephen R Schwartz (SR)

Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Colin Snodgrass (C)

University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK.

Jordan Steckloff (J)

Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Timothy J Stubbs (TJ)

Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

Josep M Trigo-Rodríguez (JM)

Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC), UAB Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.

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