The surface sensitivity of rubble-pile asteroids during a distant planetary encounter: Influence of asteroid shape elongation
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2020-11-06 v1
Abstract
We numerically investigate how an asteroid's elongation controls the sensitivity of its surface to tidal effects during a distant planetary encounter beyond the Roche limit. We analyze the surface slope and its variation by considering the shape elongation, as well as the spin period and orbital conditions. A more elongated asteroid tends to have a higher slope variation, while there may not be a monotonic increase of the total area having such a variation
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@article{arxiv.2011.02546,
title = {The surface sensitivity of rubble-pile asteroids during a distant planetary encounter: Influence of asteroid shape elongation},
author = {Yaeji Kim and Masatoshi Hirabayashi and Richard P Binzel and Marina Brozović and Daniel J Scheeres and Derek C Richardson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02546},
year = {2020}
}
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12 pages, 1 figures, to be published in Icarus