About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 115. Not illustrated. Chapters: 2867 teins, 1931 apek, 2029 Binomi, 4426 Roerich, 2352 Kurchatov, 1834 Palach, 3659 Bellingshausen, 4184 Berdyayev, 2010 Chebyshev, 2232 Altaj, 1832 Mrkos, 1775 Zimmerwald, 2111 Tselina, 4465 Rodita, 2030 Belyaev, 4164 Shilov, 2931 Mayakovsky, 3804 Drunina, 6679 Gurzhij, 2092 Sumiana, 2948 Amosov, 3126 Davydov, 2877 Likhachev, 2561 Margolin, 3406 Omsk, 4109 Anokhin, 1956 Artek, 2468 Repin, 5299 Bittesini, 1875 Neruda, 1975 Pikelner, 1855 Korolev, 5075 Goryachev, 2327 Gershberg, 2697 Albina, 1833 Shmakova, 3441 Pochaina, 1891 Gondola, 3963 Paradzhanov, 3577 Putilin, 2385 Mustel, 5218 Kutsak, 2031 Bam, 5986 Xenophon, 8444 Popovich, 7318 Dyukov, 6355 Univermoscow, 5154 Leonov, 2807 Karl Marx, 1856 R ena, 6810 Juanclaria. Excerpt: 2867 teins - A study published in 2006 by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory showed that teins is an E-type asteroid with a diameter of approximately 4.6 km. Studying the asteroid before its flyby, the Rosetta space probe showed via a lightcurve analysis that teins has a rotation period of about six hours, is irregular in shape, and does not have any moons. After the Rosetta flyby, the ESA described teins as 'a diamond in the sky', as it has a wide body that tapers into a point. The wide section is dominated by a large crater (2.1 km diameter), which surprised scientists, who were amazed the asteroid survived such an impact. The photographs of teins taken by Rosetta allowed scientists to determine that the asteroid has dimensions of 6.67 x 5.81 x 4.47 km. On September 5, 2008, the Rosetta space probe flew by teins at a distance of 800 kilometres and a relatively slow speed of 8.6 kilometres per second. This was the first of two planned asteroid flybys performed by the probe, the second being the much larger 21 Lutetia in 2010. The timing of the fly-by meant ...
