Is asteroid 951 Gaspra in a resonant obliquity state with its spin increasing due to YORP?

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作者
Rubincam, DP [1 ]
Rowlands, DD [1 ]
Ray, RD [1 ]
机构
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Geodynam Branch, Terr Phys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
关键词
asteroid; Gaspra; rotation; spin; Yarkovsky; YORP;
D O I
10.1029/2001JE001813
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
[1] Asteroid 951 Gaspra appears to be in an obliquity resonance with its spin increasing due to the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect (YORP effect, for short). Gaspra, an asteroid 5.8 km in radius, is a prograde rotator with a rotation period of 7.03 hours. A 3 x 10(6) year integration indicates that its orbit is stable over at least this time span. From its known shape and spin axis orientation and assuming a uniform density, Gaspra's axial precession period turns out to be nearly commensurate with its orbital precession period, which leads to a resonance condition with consequent huge variations in its obliquity. At the same time, its shape is such that the YORP effect is increasing its spin rate. YORP may be a reason for small asteroids entering resonances in the first place: they speed up or slow down and fall into resonances. The continued action of YORP probably ultimately causes asteroids to leave resonances, so that they are quasi-stable states.
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