Powerful new technique to measure asteroids' sizes and shapes
Friday, February 6, 2009 - 06:35
in Physics & Chemistry
'Knowledge of the sizes and shapes of asteroids is crucial to understanding how, in the early days of our Solar System, dust and pebbles collected together to form larger bodies and how collisions and re-accumulation have since modified them,' says Marco Delbo from the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France, who led the study...
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