Sentence examples for asteroid shapes from inspiring English sources

In particular, the orbital reorientation effect is influential when realistic asteroid shapes and rotations are accounted for.

This paper focuses on understanding the topography for real asteroid shapes, and how this topography can change the deflection performance of an ablation technique.

This paper corroborates that the asteroid shape can be exploited for maximum performance.

In some cases, the YORP effect can add enough rotational angular momentum to change the asteroid shape, with particles, rocks, boulders, etc. moving across the asteroid surface in response to the resulting centrifugal forces (Walsh et al. 2008).

In situ or near-target experiments studying small asteroids (R (_{rm O}) (lesssim 100,hbox {km})) often cannot stay in a stable orbit at close proximity (i.e. R (_{rm O})/R (_{rm T} >> 1)) due to low gravity, debris, or an irregular asteroid shape.

Happy early Halloween, everybody: An asteroid shaped like a goddamn skull is currently heading toward Earth, as if you needed yet another reminder that our garbage world has somehow turned into the plot of a hacky B-movie, LiveScience reports.

The NEOCam mission would use an infra-red camera to garner information on asteroid size, shape, rotation and composition.

NEAR was scheduled to begin orbiting Eros in late January for a 9-month study of the asteroid's shape and composition.

Much in the same way that Jupiter's gravity dominates the asteroid belt, shaping its structure, so Neptune's gravity dominates the Kuiper belt.

The same effect can alter the rotation speeds and orientations of asteroids with elongated shapes, the team found.

And what are the physical processes that shape asteroid internal structures?