Binary Asteroids
Binary
asteroids (like Ida and Dactyl here on the right) are especially interesting
objects because the astronomer can learn more about the asteroid's interior and
history when a couple is studied. Why? See below for some details and
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Observational evidence for binaries "divorce". |
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Paper at: Nature 466, 1085-1088. |
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Asteroids suspected as formed by collision were probably
formed by rotational-fission |
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Spectroscopic and Photometric Observations of Binary
Asteroids: |
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A scientific lecture given at the ACM 2008, Baltimore,
USA. |
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2nd workshop
on Binaries of the Solar Systme, Poznan, 2010 |
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