The Yarkovsky and YORP effects: Implications for asteroid dynamics

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 157-191

  Bottke Jr , William F ^a   Vokrouhlický, David ^b   Rubincam, David P ^c   Nesvorný, David ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Asteroids dynamics; Celestial mechanics; Meteorites; Nongravitational forces

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GRAVITATION; HEAT RADIATION; METEORITES; ORBITS; RESONANCE; TORQUE;

ASTEROID DYNAMICS; CHAOTIC RESONANCE ZONES; EARTH-CROSSING ORBITS; NONGRAVITATIONAL FORCES; SEMIMAJOR AXIS DRIFT; SPIN VECTOR MODIFICATIONS; SPIN-ORBIT RESONANCE; YARKOVSKY-DRIVEN FORCES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTEROID; SOLAR RADIATION; TORQUE;

EID: 33744964658     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.34.031405.125154     Document Type: Article

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