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DART and LICIACUBE: Documenting Kinetic Impact

Andrew Cheng
Elizabetta Dotto
Eugene Fahnestock
  • Fonction : Auteur
Vincenzo Della Corte
  • Fonction : Auteur
Nancy Chabot
Andy Rivkin
Angela Stickle
Cristina Thomas
Barnouin Olivier
Patrick Michel
Michael Kueppers
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will demonstrate asteroid deflection by a kinetic impactor. DART will impact Dimorphos, the secondary member of the (65803) Didymos system, in late September to early October, 2022 in order to change the binary orbit period. DART will carry a 6U CubeSat called LICIACube, contributed by the Italian Space Agency, to document the DART impact and to observe the impact ejecta. LICIACube will be released by DART 10 days prior to Didymos encounter, and LICIACube will fly by Dimorphos at closest approach distance of about 51 km and with a closest approach time delay of about 167 s after the DART impact. LICIACube will observe the structure and evolution of the DART impact ejecta plume and will obtain images of the surfaces of both bodies at best ground sampling about 1.4 m per pixel. LICIACube imaging importantly includes the non-impact hemisphere of the target body, the side not imaged by DART.
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hal-03842934 , version 1 (07-11-2022)

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Andrew Cheng, Elizabetta Dotto, Eugene Fahnestock, Vincenzo Della Corte, Nancy Chabot, et al.. DART and LICIACUBE: Documenting Kinetic Impact. European Planetary Science Congress 2021, Sep 2021, Virtual, Unknown Region. ⟨10.5194/epsc2021-436⟩. ⟨hal-03842934⟩
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