The Western Bulge of 162173 Ryugu Formed as a Result of a Rotationally Driven Deformation Process

Masatoshi Hirabayashi , Eri Tatsumi (1) , Hideaki Miyamoto , Goro Komatsu , Seiji Sugita (2) , Sei-Ichiro Watanabe , Daniel J. Scheeres (3) , Olivier Barnouin (4) , Patrick Michel (5) , Chikatoshi Honda , Tatsuhiro Michikami , Yuichiro Cho , Tomokatsu Morota , Naru Hirata , Naoyuki Hirata , Naoya Sakatani , Stephen Schwartz , Rie Honda , Yasuhiro Yokota , Shingo Kameda , Hidehiko Suzuki , Toru Kouyama , Masahiko Hayakawa , Moe Matsuoka (6) , Kazuo Yoshioka (7) , Kazunori Ogawa , Hirotaka Sawada , Makoto Yoshikawa , Yuichi Tsuda

1 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [TITECH Tokyo]
2 Dept of Complex Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Science
3 University of Michigan - Flight Dynamics and Control
4 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
5 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
6 ISAS - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
7 Department of Earth and Planetary Science [Tokyo]

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]

Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Eri Tatsumi, Hideaki Miyamoto, Goro Komatsu, Seiji Sugita, et al.. The Western Bulge of 162173 Ryugu Formed as a Result of a Rotationally Driven Deformation Process. The Astrophysical journal letters, 2019, 874 (1), pp.L10. ⟨10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e8b⟩. ⟨hal-02381811⟩