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Old 12-10-2011, 09:09 PM
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Short period asteroids

I'm working on a SAO project imaging short rotation period asteroids.

Does anyone have any ideas on where to find a list of short rotation period asteroids? I've been working though the JPL Small Bodies database, the Minor Planet Centre website and the CALL website as well as my copy of TSX. All will give me all the data I need on a specified asteroid including the rotation period - but none work in reverse?

Ideally, I'm looking for one with a rotation period less than 4 hours that is well positioned for Sydney

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Old 12-10-2011, 10:37 PM
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Would this help? You can use a rotation period filter to search the database.
http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html

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Bingo!

Thanks Rob, that is precisely what I was looking for. Was driving me mad trying to find it

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