Timeline for What would be used for "coordinates" on a large asteroid?
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 15:51 | comment | added | MttJocy | The rotation also works less well when the object rotates on more than one axis (Common on minor bodies like asteroids due to their low mass and non uniform shapes making them very sensitive to gravitational or even solar radiation perturbing their orbits and rotations). For short stays using the principal axis of rotation might work not so much on longer time scales as this tends to change over time for the reasons stated above. | |
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 5:53 | history | answered | G. B. Robinson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |