Observations and Characterization of Binary Near-Earth Asteroid 65803 Didymos, the Target of the AIDA Mission

Shantanu Naidu1, Lance Benner2, Marina Brozovic2, Steven J Ostro3, Michael C Nolan4, Jean-Luc Margot5, Jon D Giorgini3, Christopher Magri6, Petr Pravec7, Petr Scheirich8, Daniel Jay Scheeres9 and Masatoshi Hirabayashi10, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME, United States, (7)Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Astronomical Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, (8)Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov, Czech Republic, (9)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Georgia Institute of Technology, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Atlanta, United States