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Caption: Figure 2.
Summary of ejecta particles that escape the Didymos system. (a) Magnitude of the ejecta particles’ momenta at the time of crossing the Hill sphere, colored by the particle mass. (b) Cumulative ejecta contribution to the momentum enhancement parameter (β ⊙ − 1) as a function of time. The components are shown in the International Celestial Reference Frame Earth mean equator frame.
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