• Title of article

    The lunar theory ELP revisited. Introduction of new planetary perturbations

  • Author/Authors

    Chapront، J. نويسنده , , Francou، G. نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    -734
  • From page
    735
  • To page
    0
  • Abstract
    Most asteroids rotate about their axis of maximum moment of inertia. However, for several small asteroids with very slow rotation rates, the damping time scale is expected to be longer than the age of the Solar System, implying that these objects may exhibit non-principal axis rotation. The asteroid 288 Glauke is suspected to undergo tumbling rotation because of very long period of light variations. We observed this object during 39 nights from January to May 2000 at the Borowiec Observatory (Poland). Our lightcurve with a peak-to-peak amplitude of 0.7 mag has a complicated nature which can result from a nonprincipal axis rotation or a very complex shape of this body.
  • Keywords
    planets , Satellites , general , celestial mechanics , ephemerides
  • Journal title
    Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Record number

    77840