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Didymos’s Reshaping Scale Revealed by Detection of Its Spin Slow-down

  • Authors: Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Harrison F. Agrusa, Petr Pravec

Masatoshi Hirabayashi et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure B1.

Outcomes given ejecta accumulation only along Didymos’s equator, which makes a hypothetical pile of the accumulated ejecta on an elliptical hoop. Panel (a) displays the thickness change at the equator after spin-driven reshaping (Modification II), which is similar to the distribution of Δtr in Figure 4. On the other hand, panel (b) shows the mutual orbit period change in seconds due to Didymos’s shape change process that includes both DART-ejecta accumulation and spin-driven shape change, which is similar to Figure 6.

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