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Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids

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Collisions and Gravitational Reaccumulation: Forming Asteroid Families and Satellites

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Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +15

Orbits Close to Asteroid 4769 Castalia

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Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Earth Sciences +12

The gravitational potential of a homogeneous polyhedron or don't cut corners

Robert A. Werner · Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy · 1994 · 281 citations

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Geometry +13