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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 4.

Period scan for ellipsoidal shape. The colorbar marks the model RMS. For clarity, points with RMS values above 0.25 are not plotted. The best-fit value with the lowest RMS is marked with a red point and corresponds to the values in Table 2. The pink square marks the second best solution. The two dashed vertical lines mark the two best periods found by the period analysis described in Section 3. The thick horizontal and vertical lines show the separations ΔPψ and ΔPϕ between local minima (see the main text).

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