The ginger-shaped asteroid 4179 Toutatis: new observations from a successful flyby of Chang'e-2.
The ginger-shaped asteroid 4179 Toutatis: new observations from a successful flyby of Chang'e-2.
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DOI:
10.1038/srep03411
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发表时间:
2013-12-12
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Bai, Jinming
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Huang, Jiangchuan;Ji, Jianghui;Ye, Peijian;Wang, Xiaolei;Yan, Jun;Meng, Linzhi;Wang, Su;Li, Chunlai;Li, Yuan;Qiao, Dong;Zhao, Wei;Zhao, Yuhui;Zhang, Tingxin;Liu, Peng;Jiang, Yun;Rao, Wei;Li, Sheng;Huang, Changning;Ip, Wing-Huen;Hu, Shoucun;Zhu, Menghua;Yu, Liangliang;Zou, Yongliao;Tang, Xianglong;Li, Jianyang;Zhao, Haibin;Huang, Hao;Jiang, Xiaojun;Bai, Jinming
On 13 December 2012, Chang'e-2 conducted a successful flyby of the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis at a closest distance of 770 ± 120 meters from the asteroid's surface. The highest-resolution image, with a resolution of better than 3 meters, reveals new discoveries on the asteroid, e.g., a giant basin at the big end, a sharply perpendicular silhouette near the neck region, and direct evidence of boulders and regolith, which suggests that Toutatis may bear a rubble-pile structure. Toutatis' maximum physical length and width are (4.75 × 1.95 km) ±10%, respectively, and the direction of the +z axis is estimated to be (250 ± 5°, 63 ± 5°) with respect to the J2000 ecliptic coordinate system. The bifurcated configuration is indicative of a contact binary origin for Toutatis, which is composed of two lobes (head and body). Chang'e-2 observations have significantly improved our understanding of the characteristics, formation, and evolution of asteroids in general.
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