Herculina articles
Deeper dives into Herculina, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
Herculina’s phantom moon
How a 1978 stellar occultation produced the first “confirmed” asteroid moon — and why Hubble could not find it.
Read →Why Herculina has been called a toaster
A short history of models of Herculina’s shape, from speckle interferometry to the 2002 “battered cuboid”.
Read →Max Wolf and the photographic hunt for asteroids
How a Heidelberg astronomer turned the camera into the main tool for discovering asteroids, Herculina among them.
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