  Using a damped mass-spring model, we simulate wobble of spinning homogeneous
viscoelastic ellipsoids undergoing non-principal axis rotation. Energy damping
rates are measured for oblate and prolate bodies with different spin rates,
spin states, viscoelastic relaxation timescales, axis ratios, and strengths.
Analytical models using a quality factor by Breiter et al. (2012) and for the
Maxwell rheology by Frouard & Efroimsky (2018) match our numerical measurements
of the energy dissipation rate after we modify their predictions for the
numerically simulated Kelvin-Voigt rheology. Simulations of nearly spherical
but wobbling bodies with hard and soft cores show that the energy dissipation
rate is more sensitive to the material properties in the core than near the
surface. The sensitivity to viscoelastic model implies that inferred statistics
of tumbling lifetimes in asteroids might be interpreted in terms of differences
in their material properties.
