Estimating the Change in the Mutual Orbit of Dimorphos Due to the DART Impact Using Lightcurve and Radar Observations

Naidu, Shantanu

Estimating the Change in the Mutual Orbit of Dimorphos Due to the DART Impact Using Lightcurve and Radar Observations

Shantanu Naidu¹, Steven R Chesley¹, Lance Benner¹, Marina Brozovic¹, Patrick A Taylor^2,3, Nicholas A Moskovitz⁴, Cristina Thomas⁵, Petr Pravec⁶, Petr Scheirich⁶, Davide Farnocchia¹, Andrew Rivkin⁷ and Jon D Giorgini¹, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Green Bank Observatory, Green Bank, United States, (3)National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, United States, (4)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (6)Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ondrejov, Czech Republic, (7)JHU/APL, Laurel, United States