Influence of the projectile geometry on the momentum transfer from a kinetic impactor and implications for the DART mission
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2021.104147
Abstract: The DART spacecraft will impact Didymos’s secondary, Dimorphos, at the end of 2022 and cause a change in the orbital period of the secondary. For simplicity, most previous numerical simulations of the impact used a… read more here.
Keywords: projectile geometry; spherical projectile; geometry; momentum ... See more keywords