{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Pajola M"],"funding":["Swiss National Science Foundation"],"pagination":["6205"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11289111"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["15(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Asteroids smaller than 10 km are thought to be rubble piles formed from the reaccumulation of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of parent bodies. Ground-based observations reveal that some of these asteroids are today binary systems, in which a smaller secondary orbits a larger primary asteroid. However, how these asteroids became binary systems remains unclear. Here, we report the analysis of boulders on the surface of the stony asteroid (65803) Didymos and its moonlet, Dimorphos, from data collected by the NASA DART mission. The size-frequency distribution of boulders larger than 5 m on Dimorphos and larger than 22.8 m on Didymos confirms that both asteroids are piles of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of their progenitors. Dimorphos boulders smaller tha"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Evidence for multi-fragmentation and mass shedding of boulders on rubble-pile binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos."],"pmcid":["PMC11289111"],"funding_grant_id":["200021"],"pubmed_authors":["Cambioni S","Agrusa H","Ieva S","Epifani EM","Abell P","Benavidez P","Karatekin O","Barnouin O","Gai I","Robin C","Impresario G","Ernst CM","Rossi A","Sunshine J","Chabot NL","Lavagna M","Dotto E","Capannolo A","Bertini I","Trigo-Rodriguez JM","Schwartz SR","Rivkin A","Deshapriya JDP","Pajola M","Cremonese G","Tancredi G","Beccarelli J","Michel P","Palumbo P","Brucato JR","Campo-Bagatin A","Tusberti F","Amoroso M","Asphaug E","Hasselmann PHA","Caporali S","Pirrotta S","Casajus LG","Gramigna E","Perna D","Ferrari F","Lombardo M","Zanotti G","Della Corte V","Raducan SD","Parro L","Modenini D","Zannoni M","Ceresoli M","Nakano R","Cheng A","Ballouz RL","Dall'Ora M","Poggiali G","Zinzi A","Manghi RL","Hirabayashi M","Daly RT","Vincent JB","Tortora P","Ivanovski S","Zhang Y","Penasa L","Farnham T","Murdoch N","Lucchetti A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Evidence for multi-fragmentation and mass shedding of boulders on rubble-pile binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos.","description":"Asteroids smaller than 10 km are thought to be rubble piles formed from the reaccumulation of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of parent bodies. Ground-based observations reveal that some of these asteroids are today binary systems, in which a smaller secondary orbits a larger primary asteroid. However, how these asteroids became binary systems remains unclear. Here, we report the analysis of boulders on the surface of the stony asteroid (65803) Didymos and its moonlet, Dimorphos, from data collected by the NASA DART mission. The size-frequency distribution of boulders larger than 5 m on Dimorphos and larger than 22.8 m on Didymos confirms that both asteroids are piles of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of their progenitors. Dimorphos boulders smaller tha","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jul","modification":"2025-04-18T17:08:19.647Z","creation":"2025-04-07T04:41:31.9Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11289111","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39080257"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-024-50148-9"]}}