Lightcurve Analysis of Four New Monolithic Fast-Rotating Asteroids

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May 2002

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Icarus, Volume 157, Issue 1, pp. 139-154 (2002).

Physics

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We present lightcurves and analysis for four new monolithic fast-rotating asteroids: 2000 AG6, 2000 DO8, 2000 EB14, and 2000 HB24. Their rotation periods of 4.60, 1.30, 107.47, and 13.05 min place them well below the critical threshold for the rotation rate of strengthless prolate ellipsoids, as we demonstrate. These four objects join the five previously identified fast-rotating asteroids. The sharp segregation in spin rates between these nine objects and asteroids with more typical spin rates is somewhat puzzling. No observed objects larger than about 200 m spin with rates faster than the critical rate for strengthless prolate ellipsoids, while no objects smaller than 200 m have shown spin rates slower than this critical limit. We hypothesize that these small, fast-rotating objects are representative of the building blocks of the ``rubble pile'' asteroids and are in fact derived from impacts into already existing ``rubble piles.'' .

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