The diverse shapes of binary asteroid satellites born from sub-escape-velocity moonlet mergers

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Table 2

Pre-merger properties of low-resolution moonlets.

Body	m_moonlet (M_primary)	N_p	a/b	b/c	a (R_primary)	ρ_p (kg m⁻³)	ρ_bulk (kg m⁻³)
Moonlet A	0.0100	1147	1.50	1.26	0.34	1190	626.8
Moonlet B	0.0054	802	1.43	0.76	0.22	1190	654.9

Notes. Mass, number of particles, particle and bulk density, as well as the geometrical pre-merger properties of each moonlet. The latter are quantified using the dynamically equivalent principal axes a, b and c.

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