Photometric characterization of near-Earth asteroids: rotation, taxonomy, and candidate evidence for internal cohesion

arXiv:2609.02563 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Terminology

• Calibration — 12× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bologna Faint Object and Spectroscopic Camera — 1× in this paper
• International Asteroid Warning Network — 1× in this paper
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — 1× in this paper
• Potentially Hazardous Asteroid — 1× in this paper

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