The diagnosis of complex rotation in the lightcurve of 4179 Toutatis and potential applications to other asteroids and bare cometary nuclei

Icarus

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 305-311

  Mueller, Béatrice E A ^a   Samarasinha, Nalin H ^a   Belton, Michael J S ^a  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

4179 Toutatis; Asteroids; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036696763     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6892     Document Type: Article

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