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Annefrank

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(5535) Annefrank is a small S-class, main-belt asteroid named after the Jewish victim of Nazi persecution famous for her diary. The Discovery spacecraft Stardust encountered the asteroid on November 2, 2002 on its route to comet Wild 2. During the fast flyby, the space probe recorded an image sequence lasting about 15 min and consisting of over 70 images. Although the imagery had a comparatively low resolution in the range of 300–185 km/pixel and covered only about 40 % of the surface, the sequence revealed a body with approximate dimensions of 6.6 × 5.0 × 3.4 km and an angular appearance, reminiscent of a contact binary or of a re-accumulated pile of fragments.

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  1. German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Stefano Mottola

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  1. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Amils

  2. Labo. d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB), Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers (OASU), Floirac CX, France

    Muriel Gargaud

  3. Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Inst. Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain

    José Cernicharo Quintanilla

  4. Geophysical Lab., Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

    Henderson James Cleaves

  5. Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

    William M. Irvine

  6. Dépt. Sc. de la Terre et de l’Atmosphère, Université du Québec, Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Daniele Pinti

  7. Centre National d'Etudes Spatiale (CNES) DPI/E2U, Paris CX, France

    Michel Viso

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Mottola, S. (2014). Annefrank. In: Amils, R., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_5199-1

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