Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983icar...53..458z&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 53, March 1983, p. 458-464. Research supported by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Asteroids, Astronomical Photometry, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Electrophotometry, Morphology, Two Body Problem, Angular Momentum, Astronomical Models, Gravitational Effects, Light Curve, Magnitude, Asteroids, 216 Kleopatra, Photoelectric Observations, Analysis, Shape, Binary Asteroids, Angular Momentum, Astronomy, Lightcurves, Amplitude, Models
Scientific paper
Weidenschilling (1980) has suggested that the asteroid 216 Kleopatra may be binary, since it has a large light curve amplitude. The new observational results presented for this body suggest with equal plausibility the single triaxial ellipsoid model, in which, when phase and aspect effects are taken into account, the actual maximum amplitude is reduced to a value close to that predicted by theory for the instability limit. If the single body model is adopted, 216 Kleopatra's density would be of a value sufficiently low to support the gravitationally bound, hydrostatic equilibrium-rubble pile model which has been suggested in recent work.
di Martino Mario
Djurasevic Gojko
Knezevic Zoran
Scaltriti Franco
Zappala Vincent
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