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


Masatoshi Hirabayashi1, Alex Benjamin Davis2, Eugene Fahnestock3, Derek C Richardson4, Patrick Michel5, Andrew F. Cheng6, Andrew Rivkin6, Daniel Jay Scheeres2, Steve Chesley7, Yang Yu8, Shantanu Naidu3, Stephen R Schwartz9, Lance Benner3, Petr Pravec10, Angela M Stickle11, Martin Jutzi12 and the AIDA Dynamical and Physical Properties of Didymos Working Group, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Atlanta, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (5)UNS-CNRS-Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, France, (6)JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, (7)JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Beihang University, Beijing, China, (9)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Lab, Tucson, United States, (10)Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Astronomical Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, (11)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (12)University of Bern, Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Center for Space and Habitability, Bern, Switzerland