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

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Table 4

Shape properties of high-resolution post-merger moons.

α (°)	a_lr/b_lr	b_lr/c_lr	a_lr (R_primary)	ϕ_lr	a/b	b/c	a (R_primary)	ϕ
0	2.45	0.97	0.51	0.36	2.08	1.04	0.51	0.36
45	1.82	1.25	0.46	0.34	1.61	1.21	0.45	0.35
90	1.92	0.68	0.39	0.33	1.73	0.73	0.40	0.35
135	1.83	1.30	0.46	0.29	1.66	1.22	0.46	0.35
180	2.50	0.83	0.49	0.33	2.13	0.91	0.49	0.34
225	1.90	1.13	0.47	0.33	1.62	1.17	0.45	0.34
270	1.35	1.42	0.39	0.34	1.26	1.33	0.40	0.35
315	1.67	1.28	0.44	0.29	1.61	1.18	0.45	0.36

Notes. Principal axes and minimum macroscopic porosity data after 3 h of simulation for the lower-resolution mergers of Fig. 3 and high-resolution cases in Fig. 6. Subscripts of ‘lr’ indicate the corresponding values for lower-resolution moonlets from Table D.1 for comparison.

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