Observing the variation of asteroid thermal inertia with heliocentric distance
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty640
Abstract: Thermal inertia is a useful property to characterise a planetary surface since it can be used as a qualitative measure of the regolith grain size. It is expected to vary with heliocentric distance because of… read more here.
Keywords: heliocentric distance; thermal inertia; variation; asteroid thermal ... See more keywords