The effect of YORP on Itokawa

Details The effect of YORP on Itokawa The effect of YORP on Itokawa

Jun 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007icar..188..425s&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 188, Issue 2, p. 425-429.

Physics

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The effect of solar radiation on the near-term rotation rate of Asteroid Itokawa via the YORP effect is predicted using the detailed shape model, rotation pole, mass estimate, and optical properties derived from the Hayabusa mission to Itokawa. Based on these estimates Itokawa is decelerating at a rate which will halve its rotation rate in only 50 90 thousand years, a large deceleration that should be detectable in a future appartion. The implications of such a large deceleration for Itokawa's past history are discussed and related to possible seismic shaking.

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