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Challenge in Arrokoth’s Single Merger to Achieve the Shape’s Principal Axis Configuration

  • Authors: Ketan Kamat, Ryota Nakano, Masatoshi Hirabayashi

Ketan Kamat et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Schematic definition of the collision angle (β). The total collision angle β is calculated as the sum of the angular misalignments (β1 and β2) of each lobe’s longest principal axis (﹩{\hat{x}}_{1}﹩ and ﹩{\hat{x}}_{2}﹩) relative to the mutual line of centers (r12).

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