[meteorite-list] Near-Earth Encounters Can 'Shake' Asteroids

[Paul H.]

Near-Earth Encounters Can 'Shake' Asteroids, 
Science Daily, January 20, 2010

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100120131149.htm

Earth Causes Asteroids to Shake, Rattle and Roll Discovery 
News by Irene Klotz, January 20, 2010.

http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroid-earth-gravity-landslide.html

Meteorite colour mystery 'solved', BBC News, January 20, 2010

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8468999.stm

The paper is:

Binzel, R. P., A. Morbidelli, S. Merouane, F. E. DeMeo, M. Birlan, 
P. Vernazza, C. A. Thomas, A. S. Rivkin, S. J. Bus,  and A. T. 
Tokunaga, 2010, Earth encounters as the origin of fresh surfaces 
on near-Earth asteroids. Nature. vol. 463, no. 7279, pp. 331-334.
doi:10.1038/nature08709

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7279/full/nature08709.html

Yours,

Paul H.