Asteroid families and rotation of asteroids.
Abstract
The possibility of the observed rotation of an asteroid having been acquired in collisions with other members of an asteroid family is discussed. It is shown that when the mass of the main asteroid constitutes the greater part of the total mass its rotational moment might have come from the impact of a smaller body with subsequent formation of the family.
- Publication:
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Astronomicheskii Vestnik
- Pub Date:
- September 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974AVest...8..182G
- Keywords:
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- Asteroids;
- Orbital Elements;
- Rotating Bodies;
- Astronomical Photometry;
- Collision Parameters;
- Light Curve;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration