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Rotationally induced failure of irregularly shaped asteroids
Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Daniel J. Scheeres
Many asteroids are rubble piles with irregular shapes. While the irregular shapes of large asteroids may be attributed to collisional events, those of small asteroids may result fr…
astro-ph.EP2018
A new equilibrium state for singly synchronous binary asteroids
Oleksiy Golubov, Vladyslav Unukovych, Daniel J. Scheeres
The evolution of rotation states of small asteroids is governed by the YORP effect, nonetheless some asteroids can stop their YORP evolution by attaining a stable equilibrium. The…
astro-ph.EP2018
Stability of the Euler Resting N-Body Relative Equlilbria
D. J. Scheeres
The stability of a system of equal sized mutually gravitating spheres resting on each other in a straight line and rotating in inertial space is considered. This is a generaliz…