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Formation Mechanism of Contact Binary Asteroid (4179) Toutatis
Bibcode: 2019AcASn..60...46H
Hu, S. C.
Contact binary asteroids are a kind of single asteroids with bifurcated (or bi-lobed) configurations. Ground-based radar observations have shown that about 14% of near-Earth asteroids larger than 200 meters in diameter may be contact binaries. Specially, the targets of the three minor planet missions, Hayabusa, Chang'e-2, and Rosetta, have contact…
2019
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Acta Astronomica Sinica
Rosetta
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