Prevalence of Fast Rotators among Small Near-Earth Asteroids: AN Ongoing Survey from the Canary Islands Observatories
Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) provide valuable opportunities to study the physical and structural properties of small bodies. While most asteroids have rotation periods longer than the ""cohesionless spin barrier""—a 2.2-hour limit beyond which rubble-pile asteroids would break apart due to centrifugal forces—some rotate much faster, challenging
Alarcon, Miguel R. et al.
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