A Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) on board the Hayabusa 2 Mission to the near Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu

Ralf Jaumann1, J.-P. Bibring2, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier3, Matthias Grott1, T.-M. Ho4, Stephan Ulamec5, Nicole Schmitz1, Hans Ulrich Auster6, Jens Biele5, H. Kuninaka7, Tatsuaki Okada8, Masako Yoshikawa9, Seiichiro Watanabe10, Tilman Spohn1, Alexander Koncz1, D. Hercik11, Harald Michaelis12 and Masaki Fujimoto13, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)Univ. de Paris Sud-Orsay, IAS, Orsay, France, (3)Institute of Geophysics and extraterrestrial Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center DLR Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (5)German Aerospace Center DLR Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (6)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (7)JSPEC/JAXA, Yoshinodai, Chuo, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, (8)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (9)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (10)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (11)Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (12)DLR - German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany, (13)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan