Radar Tomography of Asteroids
Abstract
The internal structure of NEAs is a key point for the understanding of asteroid accretion and dynamical evolution. This structure remains largely unknown although there are some indirect evidences that a rubble pile structure is really common. Radar tomography is the most promising way to probe the NEA internal structure in order to characterise its composition and its heterogeneity from decimetric to global scale.
- Publication:
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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011epsc.conf..920H