The asteroidal sphericity limit

Details The asteroidal sphericity limit The asteroidal sphericity limit

Nov 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995mnras.277...99h&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 277, Issue 1, pp. 99-105.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Minor Planets, Asteroids

Scientific paper

A diameter of 290+/-15 km separates large spherical asteroids from smaller non-spherical ones. Theoretical considerations, based on the assessment of the mean energy associated with the interparticle forces between each asteroidal atom and its relationship to the gravitational force present, also indicate that somewhere between diameters of 140 and 380 km (dependent on the composition of the asteroid) there exists a dividing line between spherical asteroids and non-spherical ones.

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