Physical characterisation of near-Earth asteroid (1620) Geographos
B. RozitisDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, USASimon GreenPlanetary and Space Sciences, Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
2014en
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Context. The Yarkovsky (orbital drift) and YORP (spin state change) effects play important roles in the dynamical and physical evolution of asteroids. Thermophysical modelling of these observed effects, and of thermal-infrared observations, allows a detailed physical characterisation of an individual asteroid to be performed.
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