Scaling forces to asteroid surfaces: The
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D.J. Scheeres; C.M. Hartzell; P. SΓ‘nchez; M. Swift
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The scaling of physical forces to the extremely low ambient gravitational acceleration regimes found on the surfaces of small asteroids is performed. Resulting from this, it is found that van der Waals cohesive forces between regolith grains on asteroid surfaces should be a dominant force and compet