The Relationship between the sizes of Asteroids and their Spin Frequencies

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Dec 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983jbaa...94...12h&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.94, no.1, p.12-17

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Asteroids, Minor Planets

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This paper reviews the relationship between the size and spin distributions of asteroids. There seems to be a division at a diameter of 260 km. Larger asteroids come from the original population, have a median spin period of 7.3 hours and mass distribution index of 1.58. Smaller asteroids are the collision-generated fragments of previous asteroids. They have a median spin period of 10.2 hours and have a mass distribution index of 2.02.

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