Golevka / Science
Science · Golevka
These are two research papers, all free to read on arXiv, about Golevka. We summarize each one in plain English from its abstract.
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What Golevka is made of and how its surface behaves.
What they foundOn Golevka, a released grain bounces and then settles differently on flat, concave and convex regions.
Equations of motion for grains on an irregular body, applied to Golevka's shape.
How Golevka moves, and the gravity and sunlight forces that shape its path.
What they foundSurface roughness increases the Yarkovsky orbital drift, typically by tens of percent; Golevka and Geographos were test cases.
An advanced thermophysical model run on real asteroid shapes.
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