Asteroid rotation excitation by subcatastrophic impacts
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society(2013)
Abstract
Photometric observations of asteroids show that some of them are in non-principal axis rotation state (free precession), called tumbling. Collisions between asteroids have been proposed as a possible asteroid rotation excitation mechanism. We simulated subcatastrophic collisions between asteroids of various physical and material parameters to find out whether they could be responsible for the exci...
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methods: numerical,minor planets, asteroids: general
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