Near-Earth Objects 400 Years after Galileo: Physical Properties and Internal Structure
Abstract
The review contains the most recent data on near-Earth objects such as their sizes and densities, rotation and shapes, taxonomy and mineralogy, optical properties and structure of their surfaces, binary systems among the NEOs and internal structure of asteroids and comets constituted the NEO population.
- Publication:
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Galileo's Medicean Moons: Their Impact on 400 Years of Discovery
- Pub Date:
- January 2010
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2010IAUS..269..234L
- Keywords:
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- Asteroids;
- near-Earth objects;
- physical properties;
- internal structure