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auriga

28 Ian 2015 01:19



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The Shape and Spin Distributions of Near-Earth Asteroids Observed with the Arecibo Radar System:

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/258563052_The_Shape_and_Spin_Distributions_of_Near-Earth_Asteroids_Observed_with_the_Arecibo_Radar_System

"..found that the population was rather evenly distributed among spheroids,
elongated bars, double-lobed contact binaries, multiple-asteroid
systems, and irregularly shaped asteroids. This seems to imply that
there is no dominant process of near-Earth asteroid evolution funneling
the population to a general shape. Furthermore, there was no clear
correlation between size and shape. "

e un asteroid mic, doar 325m diametru, poate fi un "rubble pile".

