Publications by authors named "E Epifani"
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.
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- * Fifty-four patients received treatment, and the results showed significant size reductions in various types of malformations, particularly lymphatic malformations and salivary epithelial duct cysts, with fewer interventions needed for macrocystic lymphatic types.
- * Overall, percutaneous sclerosant injection is suggested as a first-line treatment, especially for lymphatic malformations and salivary duct cysts, while the results for mucoceles and branchial cysts were less favorable.
The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed a kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, at 23:14 UTC on 26 September 2022 as a planetary defence test. DART was the first hypervelocity impact experiment on an asteroid at size and velocity scales relevant to planetary defence, intended to validate kinetic impact as a means of asteroid deflection. Here we report a determination of the momentum transferred to an asteroid by kinetic impact.
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