Title: Experimental Determination of the Structural Coefficient of Restitution of a Bouncing Asteroid Lander,
Abstract: The structural coefficient of restitution describes the kinetic energy
dissipation upon low-velocity (~0.1 m/s) impact of a small asteroid lander,
MASCOT, against a hard, ideally elastic plane surface. It is a crucial
worst-case input for mission analysis for landing MACOT on a 1km asteroid in
2018. We conducted pendulum tests and describe their analysis and the results.