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Physical and Mutual Orbit Characteristics of Near-Earth Binary Asteroid (163693) Atira

  • Authors: Aaron P. Deleon, Sean E. Marshall, Tracy M. Becker, Petr Pravec, Ellen S. Howell, Michael C. Nolan, Anne K. Virkki, Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín, Patrick A. Taylor, Bryce T. Bolin, Beth Aponte-Hernández, Israel Cabrera, Peter Kušnirák, Kamil Hornoch, Hana Kučáková

Aaron P. Deleon et al 2024 The Planetary Science Journal 5 .

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Caption: Figure 11.

Final shape model for Atira with a volume-equivalent diameter of 4.92 ± 0.95 km viewed along the principal axes. Yellow regions indicate facets that were seen at incidence angles greater than 60° (or not seen at all) in all delay-Doppler images and therefore have shape details that are not well constrained. The model shows the asteroid to be relatively round and shows concavities, seen in the +Y and −Y directions viewing from +Z, that most likely produce the characteristic “flat” edge in delay-Doppler images such as the bottom row of panels of Figure 2.

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