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Radar Images of Asteroid 4179 ToutatisDelay-Doppler images of the Earth-crossing asteroid 4179 Toutatis achieve resolutions as fine as 125 nanoseconds (19 meters in range) and 8.3 millihertz (0.15 millimeter per second in radial velocity) and place hundreds to thousands of pixels on the asteroid, which appears to be several kilometers long, topographically bifurcated, and heavily cratered. The image sequence reveals Toutatis to be in an extremely slow, non-principal axis rotation state.
Document ID
20000004213
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Ostro, Steven J. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Hudson, R. Scott (Washington State Univ. Pullman, WA United States)
Jurgens, Raymond F. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Rosema, Keith D. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Campbell, Donald B. (Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY United States)
Yeomans, Donald K. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Chandler, John F. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA United States)
Giorgini, Jon D. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Winkler, Ron (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Rose, Randy (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
October 6, 1995
Publication Information
Publication: Science
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Volume: 270
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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