Shapes and rotational properties of thirty asteroids from photometric data

Details Shapes and rotational properties of thirty asteroids from photometric data Shapes and rotational properties of thirty asteroids from photometric data

Aug 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003icar..164..346t&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 164, Issue 2, p. 346-383.

Physics

60

Scientific paper

We have analyzed photometric lightcurves of 30 asteroids, and present here the obtained shapes, rotational periods and pole directions. We also present new photometric observations of five asteroids. The shape models indicate the existence of many features of varying degrees of irregularity. Even large main-belt asteroids display such features, so the resulting poles and periods are more consistent than those obtained by simple ellipsoid-like models. In some cases the new rotational parameters are rather different from those obtained previously, and in a few cases there were no proper previous estimates at all.

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