Simulations of the Pre- and Post-impact System Dynamics of the DART Mission Target Binary Asteroid 65803 Didymos


Derek C Richardson1, Eugene Fahnestock2, Harrison F Agrusa3, Alex Benjamin Davis4, Douglas P Hamilton5, Masatoshi Hirabayashi6, Daniel Jay Scheeres4, Gonzalo Tancredi7, Kleomenis Tsiganis8, Yang Yu9, Adriano Campo Bagatin10, Andrew F. Cheng11, Patrick Michel12 and The AIDA Dynamical and Physical Properties of Didymos Working Group, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (2)JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Georgia Institute of Technology, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Atlanta, United States, (7)FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS, Montevideo, Uruguay, (8)Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, (9)Beihang University, Beijing, China, (10)University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, (11)JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, (12)UNS-CNRS-Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, France