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An Untargeted Survey of the Rotational Properties of Main-belt Asteroids using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 We present photometric data for minor planets observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite during its Cycle 1 operations. In total, we extracted usable detections for 37,965 objects.
Andrew McNeill +5 more
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Rotation Periods of Asteroids Determined With Bootstrap Convex Inversion From ATLAS Photometry
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 The rotation period is one of the fundamental physical characteristics of asteroids. It can be determined from photometric measurements by standard methods of time-series period analysis or by creating a physical model of an asteroid with the rotation ...
Josef Ďurech +3 more
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Puzzling rotation of asteroid 288 Glauke [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2003 Most asteroids rotate about their axis of maximum moment of inertia. However, for several small asteroids with very slow rotation rates, the damping time scale is expected to be longer than the age of the Solar System, implying that these objects may exhibit non-principal axis rotation.
A. Kryszczyńska +2 more
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Analysis of the rotation period of asteroids (1865) Cerberus, (2100) Ra-Shalom, and (3103) Eger – search for the YORP effect [PDF]
, 2012 The spin state of small asteroids can change on a long timescale by the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect, the net torque that arises from anisotropically scattered sunlight and proper thermal radiation from an irregularly-shaped ...
J. Ďurech +30 more
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EQUILIBRIUM ROTATION STATES OF DOUBLY SYNCHRONOUS BINARY ASTEROIDS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016 ABSTRACT A doubly synchronous binary asteroid simultaneously experiences YORP and BYORP, the former being independent of the radius of the orbit, while the latter is linearly dependent on the radius. In many systems, YORP and BYORP can compensate each other at some radius, causing an equilibrium state, to which other orbits converge in ...
Oleksiy Golubov, Daniel J. Scheeres
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Effect of rotational disruption on the size–frequency distribution of the Main Belt asteroid population [PDF]
, 2014 The size distribution of small asteroids in the Main Belt is assumed to be determined by an equilibrium between the creation of new bodies out of the impact debris of larger asteroids and the destruction of small asteroids by collisions with smaller ...
Seth A. Jacobson +4 more
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Cohesive regolith on fast rotating asteroids [PDF]
Icarus, 2020 Accepted for publication in ...
Sánchez, Paul, Scheeres, Daniel J.
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Mathematics, 2023 We have considered here a novel particular model for dynamics of a non-rigid asteroid rotation, assuming the added mass model instead of the concept of Viscoelastic Oblate Rotators to describe the physically reasonable response of a ‘rubble pile ...
Sergey Ershkov, Dmytro Leshchenko
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Physical Properties of the Young Asteroid Pair 2010 UM26 and 2010 RN221
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 The main belt asteroids 458271 (2010 UM26) and 2010 RN221 share almost identical orbital elements, and currently appear as comoving objects ∼30″ apart in the plane of the sky.
David Jewitt +3 more
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 The authors explore the possibility that near-earth, rubble pile asteroids might be used as habitats for human settlement by increasing their rotation to produce spin gravity. Using previously published scaling by Maindl et al.
Peter M. Miklavčič +6 more
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