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Apollo asteroids (1566) Icarus and 2007 MK6: Icarus family members?
Although it is more complicated to search for near-Earth object (NEO)
families than main belt asteroid (MBA) families, since differential orbital
evolution within a NEO family can cause current orbital elements to drastically
differ from each other, we have found that Apollo asteroids (1566) Icarus and
the newly discovered 2007 MK6 are almost certainly related. Specifically, their
orbital evolutions show a similar profile, time shifted by only ~1000 yr, based
on our time-lag theory. The dynamical relationship between Icarus and 2007 MK6
along with a possible dust band, the Taurid-Perseid meteor swarm, implies the
first detection of an asteroidal NEO family, namely the "Icarus asteroid
family".Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, to appear on Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Detecting Spin-Polarized Currents in Ballistic Nanostructures
We demonstrate a mesoscopic spin polarizer/analyzer system that allows the
spin polarization of current from a quantum point contact in an in-plane
magnetic field to be measured. A transverse focusing geometry is used to couple
current from an emitter point contact into a collector point contact. At large
in-plane fields, with the point contacts biased to transmit only a single spin
(g < e^2/h), the voltage across the collector depends on the spin polarization
of the current incident on it. Spin polarizations of greater than 80% are found
for both emitter and collector at 300mK and 7T in-plane field.Comment: related papers at http://marcuslab.harvard.ed
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