The Near-Earth Objects Follow-Up Program

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Dec 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997icar..130..275p&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 130, Issue 2, pp. 275-286.

Physics

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Scientific paper

We present the results of photometric observations of the near-Earth asteroids (1943) Anteros, (2102) Tantalus, (2212) Hephaistos, (3199) Nefertiti, (5751) Zao = 1992 AC, (6322) 1991 CQ, (7474) 1992 TC, and 1989 VA made between 1982 and 1995. Synodic rotation periods in the range from 2.39 to 5.54 hr were derived for five of them, and we were able to place lower limits on periods of (2212) and (5751)-both > 20 hr. Only the period of the low amplitude case of (1943) was not constrained. The most interesting results were obtained for the following objects: (2102), a fast rotator (period 2.39 hr) in an extremely inclined orbit (i ~ 64 deg) (2212), a low amplitude slow rotator considered as an inactive cometary nucleus candidate; (3199), which showed similar lightcurves at quite different positions of the phase angle bisector, constraining its rotational pole; and 1989 VA, an unusual Aten asteroid with a rotation period of 2.51 hr and a relatively large amplitude. Overall, these results continue the pattern that NEO spins exhibit a bimodal distribution of spin rates.

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