NOTE: On a Possible Rotation State of (433) Eros

Details NOTE: On a Possible Rotation State of (433) Eros NOTE: On a Possible Rotation State of (433) Eros

Jul 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999icar..140..239b&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 140, Issue 1, pp. 239-242.

Computer Science

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Due to its extremely prolate figure, Asteroid (433) Eros may exhibit an unusual nonprincipal axis rotation state. As a result of a relatively small difference between the maximum and intermediate moments of inertia, a small perturbation such as the gravitational torques experienced during a close planetary encounter could have induced a rather large amplitude libration about the longest axis. Observation of such a state will permit measurement of the moment of inertia ratios; this task may be possible once the NEAR spacecraft enters orbit around Eros in early 2000 to begin an extensive study of its composition and structure.

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