Spectral Investigation of Binary Asteroids
Résumé
The number of binary asteroids increased in a significant manner during the last years. Multiple types of observations obtained in adaptive optics, photometry, and radar, allow the rethinking not only the dynamics of the asteroids, but also their physics. The spectroscopy of a binary system can play a key role for establish the mineralogical composition of components, and implicitly the range of their density. By the application of these considerations to the physical and dynamical models, the physical parameters such as the macro-porosity or the "rubble pile'' structures could be derived.