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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 A1.

Animations showing the LAM rotational model and the fit to lightcurves from April 20 (a), April 22 (b), May 9 (c), and May 7 (d), respectively. The angles between the line of sight and the angular momentum vector L are 100∘, 99∘, 88∘, and 89∘ in the four epochs, respectively. Therefore, the angular momentum is almost within the image plane. Animations of all panels are available online. The observational time intervals shown in the animation are 2026 April 20 08:13:09–08:55:43 UTC for panel (a), 2026 April 22 08:34:20–09:05:56 UTC for panel (b), 2026 May 9 07:44:13–08:52:56 UTC for panel (c), and 2026 May 7 03:32:58–04:27:31 UTC for panel (d). The real-time duration of the animation is 24 s.

(An animation of this figure is available in the online article.)

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