Radiative Spin-up and Spin-down of Small Asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 2-11

  Rubincam, David Parry ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid; Asteroids; Eros; Gaspra; Meteoroids; Rotation; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002548954     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6485     Document Type: Article

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