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The Non-principal-axis Rotation and Convex Shape Model of the Earth Quasi-satellite and Target of China’s Tianwen-2 Mission (469219) Kamo‘oalewa

  • Authors: Xiaoyu Sun, 效宇 孙, Zhijun Song, 志军 宋, Hanjie Tan, 瀚杰 谭, Bin Yang, 彬 杨, Josef Ďurech, Nicholas Moskovitz, Audrey Thirouin, Samantha Hemmelgarn, Wen Bo, 文 博, Yang Yu, 洋 于, Jian-Yang Li, 荐扬 李

Xiaoyu Sun et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1010 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

RMS residual maps showing the solutions for the direction of angular momentum for LAM (a) and SAM (b). The color bars indicate the RMS residuals of model fitting. The stars mark the pair of mirrored angular momentum directions for each mode due to the symmetry about the Earth–asteroid–Sun plane.

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