Reconstructing the formation history of top-shaped asteroids from the surface boulder distribution

Bin Cheng (1) , Yang Yu (2) , Erik Asphaug (3) , Patrick Michel (4) , Derek Richardson (5) , Masatoshi Hirabayashi (6) , Makoto Yoshikawa (7) , Hexi Baoyin (1)

1 School of Aerospace Engineering [Tsinghua University]
2 School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
3 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson]
4 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
5 Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland
6 AU - Auburn University
7 ISAS - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

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

Bin Cheng, Yang Yu, Erik Asphaug, Patrick Michel, Derek Richardson, et al.. Reconstructing the formation history of top-shaped asteroids from the surface boulder distribution. Nature Astronomy, 2020, ⟨10.1038/s41550-020-01226-7⟩. ⟨hal-02986154⟩