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Thermal and shape properties of asteroid (21) Lutetia from Herschel observations around the Rosetta flyby

Altieri, B.; Valtchanov, I.; Jorda, L. +22 more

Prior to and around the Rosetta flyby of (21) Lutetia, the Herschel Space Observatory performed a collaborative observation campaign with its two photometers observing the asteroid in the far infrared, at wavelengths not covered by Rosetta's instruments. The Herschel observations, fed into a thermophysical model (TPM) using as input a shape model …