PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ORIGIN OF BINARY NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID (175706) 1996 FG
The near-Earth asteroid (NEA) (175706) 1996 FG[subscript 3] is a particularly interesting spacecraft target: a binary asteroid with a low-Δv heliocentric orbit. The orbit of its satellite has provided valuable information about its mass density while its albedo and colors suggest it is primitive or...
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| Language: | en_US |
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Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95417 |