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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cometary and Asteroid Missions _ Scientists find a solar-powered asteroid

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Mar 7 2007, 06:55 PM

Published online today in http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/index.html:

Acceleration of the rotation of asteroid 1862 Apollo by radiation torques
Mikko Kaasalainen, et al.
doi:10.1038/nature05614
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature05614.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/suppinfo/nature05614.html

And there will be an accompanying News and Views piece:

Asteroids: Spun in the sun
William F. Bottke
doi:10.1038/nature05711
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature05711.html

See also the related press release: http://www.aka.fi/index.asp?Id=70983D3C99624961926BACD636146B0A&data=1,886DF6EFA394CAC9DC90F5CC0110D096,44738F89BB834590A4A0A655275B1A77&groupid=9222B8DEAC7444ABA00743C47EB08F0A&tabletarget=data_1&laytmp=aka_eng.

Note also a http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March07/margot.yorp.html that will be published online tomorrow in http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.dtl.

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Mar 7 2007, 07:18 PM

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11328-sunshine-puts-asteroids-in-a-spin.html
18:00 07 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Hazel Muir