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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 7.

Observed lightcurves (red) and model lightcurves (black) for the two overall best-fitting models. The left column is ecliptic longitude, ecliptic latitude (150°, −10°) and a volume-equivalent diameter of ∼7 km; the right column is ecliptic longitude, ecliptic latitude (187°, −53°) and a volume-equivalent diameter of ∼5 km. For each panel, the shape model on the right is the simulated plane-of-sky image as observed during the middle of the observation. Note that lightcurves from different dates have different amplitudes, so these different frames are plotted with different ranges along their y-axes.

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