Successful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defence

Dataset DOI

https://doi.org/10.48732/f9hy-3j10

Author(s)

R. Terik Daly Carolyn M. Ernst Olivier S. Barnouin Nancy L. Chabot Andrew S. Rivkin Andrew F. Cheng Elena Y. Adams Harrison F. Agrusa Elisabeth D. Abel Amy L. Alford Erik I. Asphaug Justin A. Atchison Andrew R. Badger Paul Baki Ronald-L. Ballouz Dmitriy L. Bekker Julie Bellerose Shyam Bhaskaran Bonnie J. Buratti Saverio Cambioni Michelle H. Chen Steven R. Chesley George Chiu Gareth S. Collins Matthew W. Cox Mallory E. DeCoster Peter S. Ericksen Raymond C. Espiritu Alan S. Faber Tony L. Farnham Fabio Ferrari Zachary J. Fletcher Robert W. Gaskell Dawn M. Graninger Musad A. Haque Patricia A. Harrington-Duff Sarah Hefter Isabel Herreros Masatoshi Hirabayashi Philip M. Huang Syau-Yun W. Hsieh Seth A. Jacobson Stephen N. Jenkins Mark A. Jensenius Jeremy W. John Martin Jutzi Tomas Kohout Timothy O. Krueger Frank E. Laipert Norberto R. Lopez Robert Luther Alice Lucchetti Declan M. Mages Simone Marchi Anna C. Martin Maria E. McQuaide Patrick Michel Nicholas A. Moskovitz Ian W. Murphy Naomi Murdoch Shantanu P. Naidu Hari Nair Michael C. Nolan Jens Ormö Maurizio Pajola Eric E. Palmer James M. Peachey Petr Pravec Sabina D. Raducan K.T. Ramesh Joshua R. Ramirez Edward L. Reynolds Joshua E. Richman Colas Q. Robin Luis M. Rodriguez Lew M. Roufberg Brian P. Rush Carolyn A. Sawyer Daniel J. Scheeres Petr Scheirich Stephen R. Schwartz Matthew P. Shannon Brett N. Shapiro Caitlin E. Shearer Evan J. Smith R. Joshua Steele Jordan K Steckloff Angela M. Stickle Jessica M. Sunshine Emil A. Superfin Zahi B. Tarzi Cristina A. Thomas Justin R. Thomas Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez B. Teresa Tropf Andrew T. Vaughan Dianna Velez C. Dany Waller Daniel S. Wilson1 Kristin A. Wortman Yun Zhang

Journal

Nature

Publication DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05810-5

Publication Year

2023

Description

Here we report the first demonstration of an autonomous kinetic impact into a near-Earth asteroid called Dimorphos. This repository includes the digital terrain models and images discussed in this paper. DRACO images that were used to build the global shape model each have by pointing information in the form of a "sumfile" that can be used to position the images on the global shape model and impact site DTMs using the Small Body Mapping Tool (SBMT). The SBMT can be downloaded for free at sbmt.jhuapl.edu.

Files

Preview Filename Description
l_00050mm_spc_dtm_dimo_0884s26430_v003.obj

Digital terrain model of the DART impact site

g_00250mm_spc_obj_dimo_0000n00000_v003.obj

Global digital terrain model of Dimorphos

dart_0401915351_36903_01_raw.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401925635_06853_01_raw.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401927052_23729_01_raw.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401929899_33346_01_raw.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401929919_44355_01_iof.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401929952_31226_01_iof.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401929985_18096_01_iof.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401930039_14119_01_iof.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401930048_45552_01_iof.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401930049_43695_01_iof.fits

DRACO image

dart_0401929899_33346_01.sum

Pointing information in sumfile form for the corresponding DRACO image

dart_0401929919_44355_01.sum

Pointing information in sumfile form for the corresponding DRACO image

dart_0401929952_31226_01.sum

Pointing information in sumfile form for the corresponding DRACO image

dart_0401929985_18096_01.sum

Pointing information in sumfile form for the corresponding DRACO image

dart_0401930039_14119_01.sum

Pointing information in sumfile form for the corresponding DRACO image

dart_0401930048_45552_01.sum

Pointing information in sumfile form for the corresponding DRACO image

dart_0401930049_43695_01.sum

Pointing information in sumfile form for the corresponding DRACO image

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Last modified Dec. 1, 2023, 7:18 p.m.