As a member of the NASA/DART team, SIOSlab graduate student Colby Merrill contributed to work that was recently published in Nature Communications! The two articles focus on the morphology and evolution of ejecta created by the DART impact and how
SIOSlab at the 2024 Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
SIOS Laboratory grad student Colby Merrill and recent SIOSlab graduate Dr. Jackson Kulik presented their research at the Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Broomfield, CO. Colby presented research on creating new periodic trajectories in the Cislunar environment. Jackson presented research on
We Found the Dynamical Age of Selam
Selam (pictured below) is the strange secondary of the Dinkinesh binary asteroid system in the main-belt. Using the secular theory based on binary-Yarkovsky-O’Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (BYORP) and tides, we were able to constrain the age of this asteroid to 1-10 million years.
Acta Astronautica Article Published!
Colby Merrill (2nd year PhD student) just published their first journal article! In their first year at Cornell, they produced a mission design to create a contact binary asteroid and observe its formation process. They presented the first iteration of
SIOS at oSTEM 2023!
SIOS Laboratory grad student Colby Merrill presented their research at the 13th oSTEM (out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Conference in Anaheim, CA. The poster they presented focused on designing the orbits necessary to successfully demonstrate a gravity tractor