Light curves and colours of the ejecta from Dimorphos after the DART impact.

Journal

Nature

ISSN: 1476-4687

Titre abrégé: Nature

Pays: England

ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 2023

Historique:

received: 06 11 2022

accepted: 15 02 2023

medline: 21 4 2023

pubmed: 2 3 2023

entrez: 1 3 2023

Statut: ppublish

Résumé

On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft struck Dimorphos, a satellite of the asteroid 65803 Didymos

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05852-9 PMID: 36858076 PMC: PMC10115630

pubmed: 36858076

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05852-9

pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-05852-9

pmc: PMC10115630

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

Langues

eng

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Pagination

461-464

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