Fast and Slow Rotation of Asteroids
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Petr Pravec; Alan W. Harris
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We present an analysis of the distribution of asteroid spin rates vs. size. The existence of significant populations of both slow and fast rotators among asteroids smaller than D = 40 km, and especially below 10 km (where our sample is mostly near-Earth asteroids), is shown. We have found that the e