NASA NTRS · 20210004163
Tumbling Asteroids
Abstract
Burns and Safronov estimated the damping timescale of rotational wobble for asteroids, and concluded that all asteroid rotations then known should be damped to a state of principal-axis rotation about the axis of maximum moment of inertia.
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Harris, A.. 1993-07-31. Tumbling Asteroids. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210004163
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