Fig. 5: Orbital variation of heliocentric distance and of Atabaque’s average diurnal temperature and ∆T. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Orbital variation of heliocentric distance and of Atabaque’s average diurnal temperature and ∆T.

From: Fast boulder fracturing by thermal fatigue detected on stony asteroids

Fig. 5

a The heliocentric orbit period of the Didymos system is 770 days. The open circles indicate the position at which the thermophysical simulation is conducted. The illumination geometry (i.e., the Sun’s position with respect to the system) was sampled every 70 days from periapsis along the system’s heliocentric orbit using a SPICE kernel. b The average diurnal temperature and ∆T variations over the heliocentric orbit.

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