The orbit and size of (87) Sylvia’s Romulus from the 2015 apparition

•Romulus, one of two moons around asteroid (87) Sylvia, has been imaged.•The 3.5 m telescope used adaptive optics and a laser to image the moon.•This telescope is the smallest to ever image a moon of an asteroid from the ground.•From the moon’s orbit, the mass and density of asteroid (87) Sylvia was...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) N.Y. 1962), 2016-09, Vol.276, p.107-115
Hauptverfasser:	Drummond, Jack D., Reynolds, Odell R., Buckman, Miles D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adaptive optics Asteroids Density Fourier series Image processing Prolate spheroids Satellite imagery Satellites of asteroids Telescopes
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