Spin Rates of Asteroids

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Feb 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996em%26p...72..219l&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon and Planets, Volume 72, Issue 1-3, pp. 219-223

Physics

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The Asteroid Photometric Catalogue was used to redetermine the rotation periods of all asteroids with data in the catalogue. The quality of the period determinations was divided into five groups. The total number of asteroids studied were 710 and 225 of these were considered not to be observed enough to yield any rotation period (code 0). For 121 asteroids the uncertainty was several hours (code d) and for 180 the uncertainty was less than one hour (code c). Code a was used for asteroids with reliable pole determinations (47 asteroids) and code b was used for asteroids with very reliable synodic rotation periods (137 asteroids). Some statistic properties of the rotation periods of asteroids are presented.

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