Asteroid spin-axis longitudes from the Lowell observatory database

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1549b&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1549

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Using the Lowell Observatory photometric database, we analyze the variation of reduced magnitudes with ecliptic longitude, thereby estimating spin-axis longitudes for hundred of thousands of asteroids. Hitherto, spin-axis longitude estimates have been made for fewer then two hundred asteroids. We investigate longitude distributions in different dynamical groups and longitude preferences in asteroid families. We show that asteroid spin-axis longitudes are not isotropically distributed, as has been suggested by some theoretical studies. For the main belt as a whole, we find a marked depletion of spin-axis longitudes near 140 and excesses near 30 and 90 . For Jupiter Trojans there is preponderance of spin axes near 100 . We describe longitude distributions for asteroid families.

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