Retrograde spins of near-Earth asteroids from the Yarkovsky effect

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6981, 2004, Pages 400-401

  La Spina, A ^a   Paolicchi, P ^a   Kryszczynska A ^b   Pravec, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; RESONANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

ASTEROIDS; COLLISIONAL PROCESSES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTEROID; ROTATION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DYNAMICS; HEATING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 1842577746     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02411     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Greenberg, R. & Nolan, M. C. in Asteroids II (eds Binzel, R. P. et al.) 778-804 (Arizona Univ. Press, Tucson, 1989).
2. Davis, D. R., Weidenschiling, S. J., Farinella, P., Paolicchi, P. & Binzel, R. P. in Asteroids II (eds Binzel, R. P. et al.) 805-826 (Arizona Univ. Press, Tucson, 1989).
3. Zappatà, V., Cellino, A, Di Martino, M., Migliorini, F. & Paolicchi, P. Maria's family: physical structure and possible implications for the origin of giant NEAs. Icarus 129, 1-20 (1997).
4. Vokrouhlicky, D. Diurnal Yarkovsky effect as a source of mobility of meter-sized asteroidal fragments. I. Linear theory. Astro. Astrophys. 335, 1093-1100 (1998).
5. Vokrouhlicky, D. A complete linear model for the Yarkovsky thermal force on spherical asteroid fragments. Astron. Astrophys. 344, 362-366 (1999).
6. Vokrouhlicky, D. & Farinella, P. The Yarkovsky seasonal effect on asteroidal fragments: A nonlinearized theory for the plane-parallel case. Astron. J. 116, 2032-2041 (1998).
7. Spitale, J. & Greenberg, R. Numerical evaluation of the general Yarkovsky effect: Effects on semimajor axis. Icarus 149, 222-234 (2001).
8. Bottke, W. F., Jedicke, R., Morbidelli, A., Petit, J. & Gladman, B. Understanding the distribution of near-Earth asteroids. Science 288, 2190-2194 (2000).
9. Bottke, W. F. et al. Debiased orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of the near-Earth objects. Icarus 156, 399-433 (2002).
10. Morbidelli, A. & Vokrouhlicky, D. The Yarkovsky-driven origin of near-Earth asteroids. Icarus 163, 120-134 (2003).
11. Pravec, P., Harris, A. W. & Michalowski, T. in Asteroids III (eds Bottke, W. F. Jr et al.) 113-122 (Arizona Univ. Press, Tucson, 2002).
12. Kryszczyńska, A. Database of Asteroid Spin Vectors Determinations. 〈http:/www.astro.amu.edu.pl/Science/Asteroids/〉 accessed 23 October 2003.
13. Kaasalainen, M. et al. Photometry and models of eight near-Earth asteroids. Icarus 167, 178-196 (2004).
14. Magnusson, P. et al. in Asteroids II (eds Binzel, R. P. et al.) 66-97 (Arizona Univ. Press, Tucson, 1989.)
15. Rubincam, D. P. Radiative spin-up and spin-down of small asteroids. Icarus 148, 2-11 (2000).
16. Vokrouhlicky, D. Nesvorny, D. & Bottke, W. F. The vector alignments of asteroid spins by thermal torques. Nature 425, 147-151 (2003).
17. Cellino, A., Bus, S. J., Doressoundiram, A. & Lazzaro, D. in Asteroids III (eds Bottke, W. F. Jr et al.) 633-643 (Arizona Univ. Press, Tucson, 2002).