Assertion: asteroid belt's asteroid | /r/HasProperty | viewed along a line perpendicular
Facets:
value: to its rotational axis
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Before Geographos was studied by radar (see above Near-Earth asteroids), its 6.5 to 1 variation in brightness was ascribed to either of two possibilities: the asteroid is a cigar-shaped object that is being viewed along a line perpendicular to its rotational axis (which for normally rotating asteroids is the shortest axis), or it is a pair of objects nearly in contact that orbit each other around their centre of mass.