Radar imaging of binary near-earth asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5803, 2006, Pages 1276-1280

  Ostro, Steven J ^a   Margot, Jean Luc ^b   Benner, Lance A M ^a   Giorgini, Jon D ^a   Scheeres, Daniel J ^c   Fahnestock, Eugene G ^c   Broschart, Stephen B ^c   Bellerose, Julie ^c   Nolan, Michael C ^d   Magri, Christopher ^e   Pravec, Petr ^f   Scheirich, Petr ^f   Rose, Randy ^a   Jurgens, Raymond F ^a   De Jong, Eric M ^a   Suzuki, Shigeru ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Arecibo Observatory   (Puerto Rico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON   (United States)

^f ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; ORBITS; POROSITY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RADAR IMAGING;

EQUATORIAL RIDGE; HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR IMAGES; NEAR EARTH BINARIES;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTEROID; BULK DENSITY; POROSITY; RADAR IMAGERY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY; GRAVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 33751573444     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133622     Document Type: Article

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30. We thank the technical staffs of the Arecibo Observatory and the Goldstone 5olar 5ystem Radar for help with the observations. 5ome of this work was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA. This material is based in part on work supported by NASA under the 5cience Mission Directorate Research and Analysis Programs. The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which is operated by Cornell University under a cooperative agreement with the N5F. Research at the University of Michigan was supported by NASA's Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, by the JPL/Caltech Director's Research and Development Fund, and by the Air Force Office of 5cientific Research. J.L.M. was supported in part by NASA grant NNG04GN31G. C.M. was partially supported by N5F grant AST-0205975. The work at Ondřejov was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (grant 205/05/0604).