Minimum energy asteroid reconfigurations and catastrophic disruptions

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 154-164

  Scheeres, Daniel J ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid; Catastrophic disruption; Rubble pile; YORP

Indexed keywords

PILES; WAKES;

ASTEROID; BINARY ASTEROIDS; CATASTROPHIC DISRUPTION; HIGH-ENERGY IMPACTS; MINIMUM ENERGIES; RIGID BODIES; RUBBLE PILE; SPIN RATES; SYSTEM LEVELS; YORP;

ASTEROIDS;

EID: 59349117189     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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