A study of asteroid pole-latitude distribution based on an extended set of shape models derived by the lightcurve inversion method
Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Year: 2011

Context. In the past decade, more than one hundred asteroid models were derived using the lightcurve inversion method. Measured by the number of derived models, lightcurve inversion has become the leading method for asteroid shape determination. Aims. Tens of thousands of sparse-in-time lightcurves from astrometric projects are publicly available. We investigate these data and use them in the lightcurve inversion method to derive new asteroid models. By having a greater number of models with kno