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1620 Geographos and 433 Eros: Shaped by Planetary Tides?

  • Authors: W. F. Bottke, Jr., D. C. Richardson, P. Michel, and S. G. Love

Bottke et al. 1999 The Astronomical Journal 117 1921.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Ellipticity values of our model asteroids plotted against the fraction of mass shed in each tidal disruption outcome. Seventy‐nine S‐class, 40 B‐class, and 76 M‐class disruptions are shown. The starting ellipticity for our model rubble pile is ﹩\epsilon _{\mathrm{rem}\,}=0.43﹩. Geographos’s ellipticity is ﹩\epsilon _{\mathrm{rem}\,}=0.64﹩. Note that most M‐class disruptions produce high ellipticities.

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