Vincenzo Della Corte
A5050448703- Astro and Planetary Science
- Planetary Science and Exploration
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Space Exploration and Technology
- Spacecraft Design and Technology
- Space Satellite Systems and Control
- Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Nuclear Physics and Applications
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Space exploration and regulation
- Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
- Calibration and Measurement Techniques
- Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
- Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Earthquake Detection and Analysis
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Parthenope University of Naples
2012-2025
Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
2002-2025
National Institute for Astrophysics
2015-2024
Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology
2015-2024
Delft University of Technology
2021
Planetary Science Institute
2021
Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC
2021
Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență Cluj-Napoca
2021
Babeș-Bolyai University
2021
Association for Liberty and Equality of Gender
2021
Critical measurements for understanding accretion and the dust/gas ratio in solar nebula, where planets were forming 4.5 billion years ago, are being obtained by GIADA (Grain Impact Analyser Dust Accumulator) experiment on European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Between 3.6 3.4 astronomical units inbound, OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, Infrared Remote Imaging System) detected 35 outflowing grains of mass 10(-10) to 10(-7) kilograms, 48 10(-5)...
ABSTRACT The Rosetta probe, orbiting Jupiter-family comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, has been detecting individual dust particles of mass larger than 10 −10 kg by means the GIADA collector and OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera Narrow since 2014 August will continue until 2016 September. Detections single allow us to estimate anisotropic flux from 67P, infer loss rate size distribution at surface sunlit nucleus, see whether 67P evolves in time. velocity orbiter, relative is much lower measured GIADA,...
The processes that led to the formation of planetary bodies in Solar system are still not fully understood. Using results obtained with comprehensive suite instruments onboard European Space Agency's Rosetta mission, we present evidence comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko likely formed through gentle gravitational collapse a bound clump mm-sized dust aggregates ('pebbles'), intermixed microscopic ice particles. This scenario leads cometary make-up is simultaneously compatible global porosity,...
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a Planetary Defense mission, designed to demonstrate the kinetic impactor technique on (65803) Didymos I Dimorphos, secondary of system. DART has four level 1 requirements meet in order declare mission success: (1) impact Dimorphos between 2022 September 25 and October 2, (2) cause at least 73 s change its binary orbit period via impact, (3) measure an uncertainty 7.3 or less, (4) momentum transfer efficiency ( β ) characterize...
Abstract The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed a kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of binary (65803) Didymos, at 23:14 UTC 26 September 2022 as planetary defence test 1 . DART was first hypervelocity experiment an size and velocity scales relevant to defence, intended validate means deflection. Here we report determination momentum transferred by impact. On basis change in orbit period 2 , find instantaneous reduction Dimorphos’s along-track...
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) had an impact with Dimorphos (a satellite of the asteroid Didymos) on 26 September 2022 1 . Ground-based observations showed that Didymos system brightened by a factor 8.3 after because ejecta, returning to pre-impact brightness 23.7 days afterwards 2 Hubble Space Telescope made from 15 minutes 18.5 after, spatial resolution 2.1 kilometres per pixel, complex evolution ejecta 3 , consistent other events. momentum enhancement factor,...
Abstract Images collected during NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide the first resolved views of Didymos binary asteroid system. These images reveal that primary asteroid, Didymos, is flattened and has plausible undulations along its equatorial perimeter. At high elevations, surface rough contains large boulders craters; at low elevations smooth possesses fewer craters. Didymos’ moon, Dimorphos, an intimate mixture boulders, several asteroid-wide lineaments, a...
The Grain Impact Analyzer and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) instrument on board ESA's Rosetta mission is constraining the origin of dust particles detected within coma comet 67 P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). collected belong to two families: (i) compact (ranging in size from 0.03 1 mm), witnessing presence materials that underwent processing solar nebula (ii) fluffy aggregates 0.2 2.5 mm) sub-micron grains may be a record primitive component, probably linked interstellar dust. dynamics constrain...
Before Rosetta, the space missions Giotto and Stardust shaped our view on cometary dust, supported by plentiful data from Earth based observations interplanetary dust particles collected in Earth’s atmosphere. The Rosetta mission at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was equipped with a multitude of instruments designed to study dust. While an abundant amount presented several individual papers, many focused dedicated measurement or topic. Different instruments, methods, sources provide...
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Context. During the period between 15 September 2014 and 4 February 2015, Rosetta spacecraft accomplished circular orbit phase around nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P). The Grain Impact Analyzer Dust Accumulator (GIADA) onboard monitored 67P coma dust environment for entire period.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P hereinafter) is characterized by a dust transfer from the southern hemi-nucleus to night-side northern deposits, which constrains dust-to-ices mass ratio inside nucleus values factor of 2 larger than that provided lost gas and non-volatiles. This applies all comets because density in night comae cannot prevent fallback. Taking into account Grain Impact Analyser Dust Accumulator (GIADA) data collected during entire Rosetta mission, we update average bulk...
Abstract The SIMBIO-SYS (Spectrometer and Imaging for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem) is a complex instrument suite part of the scientific payload Mercury Planetary Orbiter mission, last cornerstone missions European Space Agency (ESA) Horizon + science program. will provide all imaging capability spacecraft. It consists three channels: STereo Channel (STC), with broad spectral band in 400-950 nm range medium spatial resolution (at best 58 m/px), that Digital Terrain Model...
Abstract Asteroids smaller than 10 km are thought to be rubble piles formed from the reaccumulation of fragments produced in catastrophic disruption parent bodies. Ground-based observations reveal that some these asteroids today binary systems, which a secondary orbits larger primary asteroid. However, how became systems remains unclear. Here, we report analysis boulders on surface stony asteroid (65803) Didymos and its moonlet, Dimorphos, data collected by NASA DART mission. The...
Abstract Spacecraft observations revealed that rocks on carbonaceous asteroids, which constitute the most numerous class by composition, can develop millimeter-to-meter-scale fractures due to thermal stresses. However, signatures of this process second-most populous group S-complex, have been poorly constrained. Here, we report boulders’ Dimorphos, is moonlet S-complex asteroid (65803) Didymos, target NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) planetary defense mission. We show...
Context. The ESA Rosetta spacecraft will reach the short-period comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. Orbiting strategy, orbiter safety conditions, landing scenarios and expected results from dust collectors depend on models of 67P environment. Many papers already tackled this matter, analysing a limited set observations, therefore often reaching conflicting conclusions.
On 2016 Feb 19, nine Rosetta instruments serendipitously observed an outburst of gas and dust from the nucleus comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Among these were cameras spectrometers ranging UV over visible to microwave wavelengths, in situ gas, plasma instruments, one collector. At 09:40 a cloud developed at edge image shadowed region nucleus. Over next two hours recorded signature that significantly exceeded background. The enhancement ranged 50 per cent neutral density factors >100...
Context. The COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyzer (COSIMA) on board Rosetta is dedicated to the collection and compositional analysis of dust particles in coma 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P).