Abstract
Using the Amplitude-Magnitude method, pole coordinates of 10 asteroids were deduced. Due mainly to the small number of available oppositions, the results of this paper should be generally considered as preliminary, awaiting confirmation from future observations. For six asteroids (17, 32, 55, 88, 423, 451) the results represent the first attempt at determining their rotational axis directions. In three cases (7, 41, 349), a comparison with results from different techniques was possible, and it has shown a good fit, the discrepancies being generally inside the expected uncertainties. In order to compute the pole directions, amplitudes and magnitudes were corrected for scattering effects, using a relationship obtained by laboratory simulations on asteroids models. All the calculations were performed using both the asteroid ecliptic coordinates and the phase angle bisector coordinates. Due to the generally small phases of the observations, the results differ by 4° long and 2° lat on the average. The difference can be considered statistically indistinguishable.
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