Next week: the 6th Binaries in the Solar System (Binaries VI), in Nice, FR 15 to 17 September 2025
https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/
Some highlights (I admit I’m biased here):
https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Program_BAM_1.pdf
Monday – 15 September
Rachel Cueva Modeling the Dynamical Survivability of Binary Asteroids in the Near-Earth Object Population
Luana Liberato Binary asteroids in Gaia FPR
Harold Levison The Lucy Mission’s Observations of Binary Asteroids
Andy López-Oquendo Spectral Characterization of (152830) Dinkinesh System by the Lucy Mission
Duncan Lyster Modelling Radiance from Lucy’s Flyby of Binary Asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh
Harrison Agrusa The Formation of the Eurybates system
Posters
Andrea Lopez Parametric investigation into orbit stability of small Trojan binaries
Jessica Agarwal Is the binary main-belt comet 288P actually a triple system?
Olivier S. Barnouin A Gravity Tractor Mission Concept to a Binary Asteroid
Antoine Choukroun Early-Development Framework for Detection and Characterization of Binary Asteroid Systems
Tuesday – 16 September
Kevin Walsh Formation of satellites around the largest asteroids
Wen-Yue Dai Diverse configurations of binary asteroids explained by multi-generation satellites
Sabina Raducan Asteroid moon formation through low-velocity mergers
Seth Jacobson Binary Formation Via Gravitational Collapse with a soft-sphere Discrete Element Method
Olivier Barnouin Binary and bilobate asteroids formation following catastrophic disruption.
Po-Yen Liu Binary asteroid formation via sudden collisional spin-up
Isabel Herreros Mass-Wasting Processes and Surface Dynamics on Dimorphos
Rahil Makadia Deflecting binary asteroids: Future considerations highlighted by the Didymos system’s heliocentric deflection after DART
Patrick Michel The ESA Hera mission: first rendezvous with a binary asteroid
Posters
Richard Cannon Shape modeling of contact binary NEO’s with radar and lightcurve observations
Stephen R. Schwartz Boulder reaccumulation in the Didymos system
Tony Farnham High Speed Boulders in the DART Ejecta Field
Andre Amarante The Dynamics Of Dimorphos Reshaping On The Coorbital Particles Around Didymos After The DART Impact
Wednesday – 17 September
Magdalena Polińska 2478 Tokai – synchronous eclipsing binary asteroid with surprising lightcurves
Albert Conrad Observation of (93) Minerva satellite Aegis with SHARK-VIS by the Large Binocular Teleacop
Flaviane Venditti The population of binary and triple near-Earth asteroids observed with the Arecibo planetary radar system
Binary asteroids and other dynamical systems: handy to have multiples, for multiple reasons.