Toutatis articles
Deeper dives into Toutatis, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
Chang’e 2 and the 2012 Toutatis flyby
A lunar orbiter that went on to visit L2 and then made China’s first asteroid encounter.
Read →Par Toutatis! A lost asteroid and a Celtic god
How an asteroid seen in 1934 was lost for decades, then found and named after a god of Gaulish tribes.
Read →Why Toutatis tumbles
Two rotations at once, sunlight torques and what “daytime” would mean on a non-principal-axis rotator.
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