On the shapes and spins of "rubble pile" asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 310-318

  Harris, Alan W ^a   Fahnestock, Eugene G ^b   Pravec, Petr ^c  

^a Space Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Asteroids; dynamics; rotation; Rotational dynamics; solid body; Tides

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649083224     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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