Extremely strong polarization of an active asteroid (3200) Phaethon
(3200) Phaethon is a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1983 that has large inclination and eccentricity. Here, the authors perform polarimetric observation of Phaethon over a wide range of solar phase angle and report that the asteroid exhibits a very strong linear polarization.
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: |
Takashi Ito,
Masateru Ishiguro,
Tomoko Arai,
Masataka Imai,
Tomohiko Sekiguchi,
Yoonsoo P. Bach,
Yuna G. Kwon,
Masanori Kobayashi,
Ryo Ishimaru,
Hiroyuki Naito,
Makoto Watanabe,
Kiyoshi Kuramoto |
Format: | Article
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Language: | English |
Published: |
Nature Publishing Group
2018-06-01
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Series: | Nature Communications
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04727-2
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