A useful technique for estimating the shapes of many asteroids has been
A) measurement by many closely spaced observers of occultations of stars by asteroids.
B) direct photography of the asteroid's shape from Earth.
C) photography from spacecraft, such as Galileo.
D) measurement of brightness variations caused by asteroid rotation.
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