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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 B1.

Animations of the rotational model with the convex shape model showing the fit to lightcurves from April 20 (a), April 22 (b), May 9 (c), and May 7 (d), respectively. Similar to the LAM model with an ellipsoidal shape, the angular momentum vector L almost lies within the image plane, with the angles from the line of sight 102∘, 101∘, 89∘, and 91∘ in the four epochs, respectively. Animations of all panels are available. The observational time intervals and the real-time duration of the animation are the same as those given for Figure A1.

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

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