@article{31eb727ba297411492055b30915cbc5e,
title = "Near-Earth Asteroid 2005 CR37: Radar images and photometry of a candidate contact binary",
abstract = "Arecibo (2380 MHz, 13 cm) radar observations of 2005 CR37 provide detailed images of a candidate contact binary: a 1.8-km-long, extremely bifurcated object. Although the asteroid's two lobes are round, there are regions of modest topographic relief, such as an elevated, 200-m-wide facet, that suggest that the lobes are geologically more complex than either coherent fragments or homogeneous rubble piles. Since January 1999, about 9% of NEAs larger than ∼200 m imaged by radar can be described as candidate contact binaries.",
keywords = "Asteroids, Radar, Surfaces, asteroids, composition",
author = "Benner, {Lance A.M.} and Nolan, {Michael C.} and Ostro, {Steven J.} and Giorgini, {Jon D.} and Pray, {Donald P.} and Harris, {Alan W.} and Christopher Magri and Margot, {Jean Luc}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Riccardo Giovanelli for graciously relinquishing time at Arecibo on short notice so that we could observe 2005 CR37. We thank the technical staff at Arecibo for help with the observations. C. Magri is partially supported by NSF Grant AST-0205974. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate Research and Analysis Programs. Part of this research was conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA. The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which is operated by Cornell University under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. ",
year = "2006",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.icarus.2006.01.016",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "182",
pages = "474--481",
journal = "Icarus",
issn = "0019-1035",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "2",
}