Observations of "fresh" and weathered surfaces on asteroid pairs and their implications on the rotational-fission mechanism
The rotational-fission of a "rubble-pile" structured asteroid can result in an "asteroid pair" - two unbound asteroids sharing nearly identical heliocentric orbits. Models suggest that this mechanism exposes material from below the progenitor surface that previously had never hav...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier,
2016-06-06T14:18:33Z.
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