Inelastic Dissipation in Wobbling Asteroids and Comets

Details Inelastic Dissipation in Wobbling Asteroids and Comets Inelastic Dissipation in Wobbling Asteroids and Comets

1998-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9811042v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 311 (2000) 269

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03036.x

Asteroids and comets dissipate energy when they rotate about the axis different from the axis of the maximal moment of inertia. We show that the most efficient internal relaxation happens at the double frequency of body's tumbling. Therefore the earlier estimates that ignore double frequency input underestimate the internal relaxation in asteroids and comets. We show that the Earth seismological data may poorly represent acoustic properties of asteroids and comet as internal relaxation increases in the presence of moisture. At the same time owing to non-linearlity of inelastic relaxation small angle nutations can persist for very long time spans, but our ability to detect such precessions is limited by the resolution of the radar-generated images. Wobbling may provide valuable information on the composition and structure of asteroids and on their recent history of external impacts.

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