YORP on tumbling asteroids

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1857r&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1857

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A semi-analytical model of the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe- Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect on an asteroid spin in non principal axis rotation state is presented. Assuming zero conductivity, the YORP torque is represented by spherical harmonics series with vector coefficients, allowing to use any degree and order of approximation. Within the quadrupole approximation of the illumination function we find the same first integrals involving rotational momentum, obliquity and dynamical inertia that were obtained by Cicaló and Scheeres [1]. The integrals do not exist when higher degree terms of illumination function are included and then the asymptotic states known from Vokrouhlický et al. [2] appear. This resolves an apparent contradiction between earlier results. Averaged equations of motion admit stable and unstable limit cycle solutions that were not detected previously.

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