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Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission
- 1.0355351 - ASÚ 2011 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Pravec, Petr - Vokrouhlický, D. - Polishook, D. - Scheeres, D.J. - Harris, A. W. - Galád, Adrián - Vaduvescu, O. - Pozo, F. - Barr, A. - Longa, P. - Vachier, F. - Colas, F. - Pray, D. P. - Pollock, J. - Reichart, D. E. - Ivarsen, K.M. - Haislip, J.B. - LaCluyze, A. - Kušnirák, Peter - Henych, Tomáš - Marchis, F. - Macomber, B. - Jacobson, S.A. - Krugly, Yu. N. - Sergeev, A.V. - Leroy, A.
Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission.
Nature. Roč. 466, č. 7310 (2010), s. 1085-1088. ISSN 0028-0836. E-ISSN 1476-4687
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA205/09/1107; GA ČR GD205/08/H005
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10030501
Keywords : full 2-body problem * binary asteroids * stability
Subject RIV: BN - Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics
Impact factor: 36.104, year: 2010
We report photometric observations of a sample of asteroid pairs, revealing that the primaries of pairs with mass ratios much less than 0.2 rotate rapidly, near their critical fission frequency.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0194139
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