Multiple moonlet mergers as the origin of the Dinkinesh-Selam system [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsOn November 1st, 2023, the Lucy spacecraft encountered the main-belt asteroid Dinkinesh, revealing the first confirmed contact binary moon, (152830) Dinkinesh I Selam.
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Diverse configurations of binary asteroids explained by multi-generation satellites [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsBinary asteroid systems are ubiquitous in the Solar System. Many of them originate from rotational breakup, where an asteroid’s spin-up triggers mass shedding and subsequent satellite formation from a transient debris disk.
Wen-Yue Dai +12 more
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The Potential Danger to Satellites due to Ejecta from a 2032 Lunar Impact by Asteroid 2024 YR4
Astrophysical Journal LettersOn 2032 December 22, the 60 m diameter asteroid 2024 YR _4 has a 4% chance of impacting the Moon. Such an impact would release 6.5 MT TNT equivalent energy and produce a ∼1 km diameter crater.
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Multisatellite Task Allocation and Orbit Planning for Asteroid Terminal Defence
Aerospace, 2022 Near-Earth asteroids are a great threat to the Earth, especially potential rendezvous and collision asteroids. To protect the Earth from an asteroid collision, it is necessary to investigate the asteroid defence problem.
Yuelong Luo +4 more
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Physical Properties of the Young Asteroid Pair 2010 UM26 and 2010 RN221
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 The main belt asteroids 458271 (2010 UM26) and 2010 RN221 share almost identical orbital elements, and currently appear as comoving objects ∼30″ apart in the plane of the sky.
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Carbon Speciation and Solubility in Silicate Melts
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 179-194., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Natalia Solomatova +2 more
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Environmental Impact of Silicic Magmatism in Large Igneous Province Events
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 133-151., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Scott E. Bryan
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Космические аппараты и технологии, 2020 The paper considers non-spherical objects with low gravitational attraction, such as asteroids, satellites of the planet and comets. We considered possibility of a mission to small bodies of the solar system of irregular shape on the example of the ...
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THE PRECESSION OF ASTEROID 1620 GEOGRAPHOS
Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2017 The frequency analysis of the fine photometric effects in the photometric observation obtained during asteroid 1620 Geographos approaching to Earth in 1994 allowed to derive the precession of asteroid spin axis.
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The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The Didymos binary asteroid was the target of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which intentionally impacted Dimorphos, the smaller member of the binary system.
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