Rotational properties of Baptistina asteroid family
Rotational properties of Baptistina asteroid family - ÖZET - We propose to carry out a photometric study of the Baptistina asteroid family using the TUG 1.0 m Telescope. The Baptistina family is a typical young population, about 80 Myrs old (Masiero et al. 2011). It did not have enough time to undergo significant collisional and dynamical evolution since the time of their original collisional events. Therefore, it can offer a unique insight into both the spin rate distribution of fresh asteroid fragments, and into the physical characteristics of the family break-up event at the present.