Collisional Spin Up of Nonspherical Asteroids

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Oct 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002icar..159..300y&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 159, Issue 2, p. 300-305.

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We investigate the spin up of nonspherical asteroids by successive random collisions with other smaller asteroids. The spin-up rates are calculated for ellipsoidal and spherical bodies of the same mass. Then, we derive the relative spin-up efficiency, that is, the ratio of the spin-up rate of the ellipsoidal body to that of the spherical body. We suppose a collisional process in our model different from that adopted in the previous works. The results show that ellipsoidal bodies can spin up more rapidly than spherical bodies.

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