HEAT MODELS OF ASTEROIDS AND THE YORP EFFECT

The  Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievski–Paddack (YORP) effect is a torque of light pressure recoil forces acting on an asteroid. We show how this torque can be expressed as an integral of a universal function over the surface of an asteroid, and discuss general

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O. Golubov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Odessa I. I. Mechnykov National University 2014-10-01
Series:Odessa Astronomical Publications
Online Access:http://oap.onu.edu.ua/article/view/81467