Published 1989 | Version v1
Book

Determination of pole orientations and shapes of asteroids

  • 1. Arizona Univ., Tucson (USA)
  • 2. MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)

Description

The principles of asteroid light-curve inversion are discussed together with basic principles involved in approaches for deriving asteroid pole and shape parameters from photometry data. The merits of various pole determination techniques are described and compared. Results obtained so far on the pole orientations and shapes of asteroids are presented. 78 refs

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
University of Arizona Press.
Imprint Place
Tucson, AZ (USA)
Imprint Title
Asteroids II; Proceedings of the Conference, Tucson, AZ, Mar. 8-11, 1988
Imprint Pagination
1268 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 67-97.

Conference

Title
Asteroids II meeting.
Dates
8-11 Mar 1988.
Place
Tucson, AZ (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
21055526
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ASTEROIDS; BRIGHTNESS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADAR; ROTATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTION
Descriptors DEC
EVALUATION; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RANGE FINDERS

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-8803264--.