Jan 17, 2024 · We simulated the asteroid's close Earth approaches from 2001 to 2005, showing that gravitational torques cannot explain the observed spin rate ...

Jan 10, 2024 · The net effect of many small interactions, taken in isolation, is to cause the asteroid to spin at a faster rate—although this must be balanced ...

Sep 26, 2019 · The distribution of rotation rates of small (D = 3–15 km) main-belt asteroids is analyzed in the context of the probable influence of solar ...

(1) Trauma to the Earth, such as a large meteorite collision [124, 125], could in principle disrupt convection in the sub-shell of the georeactor, ...

The rotation rate distribution of small Main Belt asteroids is dominated by YORP and collisions. These mechanism act differently depending on the size of ...

The impact of a meteoroid onto an asteroid transfers linear and angular momentum to the larger body, which may affect its orbit and its rotational state.

The asteroid belt size distribution was shaped by collisions grinding the population into smaller bodies via cratering or fragmentation. At the small size ...

We report on the formation of graphitized carbon on GaAs(100) surfaces by molecular beam epitaxy. We grew highly carbon-doped GaAs on AlAs, which was then ...