Radar and photometric observations and shape modeling of contact binary near-Earth Asteroid (8567) 1996 HW1

• Published in: Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) Vol. 214; no. 1; pp. 210 - 227
• Main Authors: Magri, Christopher, Howell, Ellen S., Nolan, Michael C., Taylor, Patrick A., Fernández, Yanga R., Mueller, Michael, Vervack, Ronald J., Benner, Lance A.M., Giorgini, Jon D., Ostro, Steven J., Scheeres, Daniel J., Hicks, Michael D., Rhoades, Heath, Somers, James M., Gaftonyuk, Ninel M., Kouprianov, Vladimir V., Krugly, Yurij N., Molotov, Igor E., Busch, Michael W., Margot, Jean-Luc, Benishek, Vladimir, Protitch-Benishek, Vojislava, Galád, Adrian, Higgins, David, Kušnirák, Peter, Pray, Donald P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.07.2011
• Subjects: Asteroids; Photometry; Radar observations; Asteroids; Photometry; Radar observations

► (8567) 1996 HW1 is a contact binary near-Earth asteroid. ► (8567) 1996 HW1 is a highly elongated near-Earth asteroid. ► (8567) 1996 HW1 could have originated as a binary asteroid system. We observed near-Earth Asteroid (8567) 1996 HW1 at the Arecibo Observatory on six dates in September 2008, obta...