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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 A2.

Animations showing the SAM 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 16∘, 14∘, 4﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{{\unicode{x000b0}}}﹩5, and 5∘ in the four epochs, respectively. Therefore, there is a strong projection effect for the angular momentum vector, which almost directly points away from the viewer in this case. Animations of all panel are available online. The observational time intervals and the real-time duration of the animation are the same as those given for Figure A1.

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