Daniel J. Scheeres

26.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
657 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

Daniel J. Scheeres is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel J. Scheeres has authored 657 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 519 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 324 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 49 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Daniel J. Scheeres's work include Astro and Planetary Science (492 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (300 papers) and Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (209 papers). Daniel J. Scheeres is often cited by papers focused on Astro and Planetary Science (492 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (300 papers) and Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (209 papers). Daniel J. Scheeres collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and France. Daniel J. Scheeres's co-authors include Robert A. Werner, S. J. Ostro, Paul Sánchez, Jay W. McMahon, Ryan S. Park, R. S. Hudson, Stephen B. Broschart, Christine Hartzell, Seth A. Jacobson and Jon D. Giorgini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Daniel J. Scheeres

600 papers receiving 13.1k citations

Hit Papers

Exterior gravitation of a polyhedron derived and compared... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Exterior gravitation of a polyhedron derived and compared with harmonic and mascon gravitation representations of asteroid 4769 Castalia
    1997 513 citations Daniel J. Scheeres et al. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel J. Scheeres United States 59 11.7k 6.5k 1.2k 1.2k 994 657 14.0k
P. H. Diamond United States 63 13.2k 1.1× 1.1k 0.2× 466 0.4× 422 0.3× 611 0.6× 505 18.1k
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan United States 72 1.9k 0.2× 1.7k 0.3× 2.6k 2.1× 252 0.2× 1.6k 1.6× 308 17.2k
A. J. Ridley United States 51 8.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.2× 1.3k 1.0× 2.3k 1.8× 53 0.1× 337 10.0k
James R. Wait United States 44 2.2k 0.2× 2.6k 0.4× 281 0.2× 2.8k 2.2× 225 0.2× 637 9.6k
Oliver Montenbruck Germany 50 6.4k 0.6× 10.2k 1.6× 176 0.1× 175 0.1× 87 0.1× 305 11.3k
Phillip Colella United States 44 2.5k 0.2× 1.7k 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 256 0.2× 351 0.4× 168 15.4k
U. S. Inan United States 69 15.5k 1.3× 1.4k 0.2× 947 0.8× 8.2k 6.6× 48 0.0× 419 17.0k
Philip L. Roe United States 39 1.7k 0.1× 4.6k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 166 0.1× 526 0.5× 143 19.0k
P. M. Kintner United States 49 6.9k 0.6× 2.4k 0.4× 308 0.2× 2.3k 1.9× 125 0.1× 198 7.6k
Herbert Lichtenegger Austria 29 2.6k 0.2× 1.6k 0.3× 269 0.2× 449 0.4× 56 0.1× 87 5.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Scheeres, Daniel J., et al.. (2025). Multiple Mars gravity-assist trajectory to inclined Sun–Earth L4. Acta Astronautica. 234. 721–733. 1 indexed citations
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Meyer, Alex J., Ioannis Gkolias, K. Tsiganis, et al.. (2024). An Earth Encounter as the Cause of Chaotic Dynamics in Binary Asteroid (35107) 1991VH. The Planetary Science Journal. 5(8). 179–179.
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Brown, Gavin M. & Daniel J. Scheeres. (2023). Temporal evolution of the dynamical environment around asteroid (101955) Bennu. Icarus. 403. 115632–115632. 3 indexed citations
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Scheeres, Daniel J., et al.. (2023). Local Orbital Elements for the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 46(12). 2275–2289. 11 indexed citations
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Brown, Gavin M. & Daniel J. Scheeres. (2023). Global Method to Compute Asteroid Equilibrium Points for Any Spin Rate. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 47(3). 531–538. 2 indexed citations
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Scheeres, Daniel J. & Gavin M. Brown. (2023). Bounds on energy and angular momentum loss in the full n-body problem. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 135(3). 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Gavin M. & Daniel J. Scheeres. (2023). Analyzing the structure of periodic orbit families that exist around asteroid (101955) Bennu. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 135(6). 4 indexed citations
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Meyer, Alex J., Daniel J. Scheeres, Harrison Agrusa, et al.. (2022). Energy dissipation in synchronous binary asteroids. Icarus. 391. 115323–115323. 10 indexed citations
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Englander, Jacob A., et al.. (2022). Multi-Objective Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization with Robustness to Missed Thrust Events. Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics. 45(7). 1255–1268. 1 indexed citations
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Agrusa, Harrison, Ioannis Gkolias, K. Tsiganis, et al.. (2021). The excited spin state of Dimorphos resulting from the DART impact. Icarus. 370. 114624–114624. 34 indexed citations
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Sánchez, Paul & Daniel J. Scheeres. (2021). Seismic waves in the asteroid environment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Yaeji, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Richard P. Binzel, et al.. (2020). The surface sensitivity of rubble-pile asteroids during a distant planetary encounter: Influence of asteroid shape elongation. Icarus. 358. 114205–114205. 9 indexed citations
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Scheeres, Daniel J., Jay W. McMahon, D. N. Brack, et al.. (2020). Particle Ejection Contributions to the Rotational Acceleration and Orbit Evolution of Asteroid (101955) Bennu. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 125(3). e2019JE006284–e2019JE006284. 9 indexed citations
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Jawin, E. R., O. S. Barnouin, T. J. McCoy, et al.. (2019). The Geology of Bennu's Biggest Boulders. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1577. 1 indexed citations
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Scheeres, Daniel J., et al.. (2019). Averaged Tumbling Dynamics of Defunct GEO Satellites. 2109. 6080.
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Golubov, Oleksiy, et al.. (2018). A New Equilibrium State for Singly Synchronous Binary Asteroids. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 857(1). L5–L5. 2 indexed citations
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Scheeres, Daniel J., et al.. (2015). Orbit Determination and Maneuver Detection Using Event Representation with Thrust-Fourier-Coefficients. Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference. 81. 1 indexed citations
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Durda, D. D., et al.. (2014). The Size Distribution of 'Boulders' Formed During Slope Failure in Piles of Self-Cohesive Powders: Application to the Morphology of Regoliths on Small Asteroids. LPI. 2015. 5 indexed citations
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Scheeres, Daniel J. & Paul Sánchez. (2014). Surface Stability of Rapidly Spinning Spheroids. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1930. 2 indexed citations
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Guibout, Vincent & Daniel J. Scheeres. (2003). Stability of Surface Motion on Rotating Ellipsoids. 1 indexed citations

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