On the shapes and spins of “rubble pile” asteroids

✍ Scribed by Alan W. Harris; Eugene G. Fahnestock; Petr Pravec

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 811 KB
• Volume: 199
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-1035
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.09.012

✦ Synopsis

pioneered the field of radar astronomy, particularly in exploring near-Earth asteroids and the methods of inversion of both radar and optical data to obtain shape models of irregular bodies. Without such tools we would not have detailed "images" of asteroids and binary systems that provide the essential input for the modeling in Sections 2 and 4 of this paper. Anyone who has co-authored a paper with Steve is aware, sometimes painfully so, of his insistence on rigorous analysis, and that it is at least as important to explore and define what one cannot say from the data, as it is to present what one can say. It is in this spirit that we present Section 3 of this paper.