Assessing possible mutual orbit period change by shape deformation of Didymos after a kinetic impact in the NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test

Masatoshi Hirabayashi , Alex Davis , Eugene Fahnestock , Derek Richardson , Patrick Michel (1) , Andrew Cheng , Andrew Rivkin , Daniel J. Scheeres (2) , Steven Chesley , Yang Yu (3) , Shantanu Naidu (4) , Stephen Schwartz (1) , Lance A.M. Benner (4) , Petr Pravec (5) , Angela Stickle , Martin Jutzi (6)

1 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
2 University of Michigan - Flight Dynamics and Control
3 Shanghai Jiao Tong University [Shanghai]
4 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
5 Ondřejov Observatory of the Prague Astronomical Institute
6 CASSIOPEE - Laboratoire de Cosmologie, Astrophysique Stellaire & Solaire, de Planétologie et de Mécanique des Fluides

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]

Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Alex Davis, Eugene Fahnestock, Derek Richardson, Patrick Michel, et al.. Assessing possible mutual orbit period change by shape deformation of Didymos after a kinetic impact in the NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test. Advances in Space Research, 2019, 63 (8), pp.2515-2534. ⟨10.1016/j.asr.2018.12.041⟩. ⟨hal-02407843⟩