Michael Busch

Re. last repost of @PhilStooke :

Related to its complicated shape; #Toutatis has a spin state that changes significantly due to gravitational tides from Earth, Sun, Moon, and even Jupiter.

This kept me busy for a while working with Yu Takahashi & Dan Scheeres to figure out how to match all the radar images from 1992 through 2012:

Takahashi, Busch, & Scheeres 2013, AJ 146, 95: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/146/4/95/pdf

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(Fans of "For All Mankind" may have seen this paper when it was used as a prop.)

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Jun 6, 2024 at 2:00pmWeb
Show threadPhil StookeJun 7, 2024
@michael_w_busch Excellent! Thank you for linking to the paper. I'm too busy with other things to go back to this, but I hope one day to see radar and Chang'e 2 data combined in a much better map than I was able to make.