Geographos / Science
Science · Geographos
These are three research papers, all free to read on arXiv, about Geographos. We summarize each one in plain English from its abstract.
Our own artist's impression. No figures are taken from the papers.
How big Geographos is, what shape it has and how it spins.
What they foundGeographos's spin is measurably speeding up due to the YORP effect.
Archived and new light curves fitted with a shape and spin model.
How Geographos moves, and the gravity and sunlight forces that shape its path.
What they foundA thermal model reconciles radar and infrared observations of Geographos and predicts its Yarkovsky orbital drift and YORP spin-up.
Advanced thermophysical modelling of light-curve, radar and thermal-infrared data.
Where Geographos came from and how it formed and changed over time.
What they foundClose passes by Earth can stretch rubble-pile asteroids into Geographos's elongated, tapered shape.
Numerical simulations of rubble-pile asteroids passing Earth.
New papers on Geographos, checked weekly, summarized after a person reads it.
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We search arXiv for Geographos papers and keep the ones that add something new, are clearly written up and are relevant to a general reader. A person reads every abstract.
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