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Cosmogony of the asteroidal belt
Nature, 1974In the plot of asteroids considered the mass density is substituted for the number density. This approach provides a better definition of the limits of the main belt, and demonstrates more clearly that the asteroids, like the Saturnian rings, have condensed from partially corotating plasma.
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Stable Chaos in the Asteroid Belt☆
Icarus, 1997Abstract Most asteroids are characterized by positive Lyapounov Characteristic Exponents (LCE), which means that their orbits are chaotic. Indeed, the striking fact is that for many of them the maximum LCE is very large, with a corresponding Lyapounov time shorter (often much shorter) than 100,000 years, as we report in this work.
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Collisional outcomes in the asteroid belt
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1984The importance of catastrophic collisions as an evolutionary process determining the main physical properties of asteroids has been recognized since a long time, but only recently its central role against other evolutionary mechanisms, such as accretion or small-scale cratering phenomena, has become apparent.
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2016
While asteroids are not moons, they share certain characteristics. The main asteroid belt is a region between Mars and Jupiter where the majority of the asteroids in the solar system are located. It is also a region which is commonly misunderstood. People hear “asteroid belt” and often thinks of a Star Wars-style region with fields of asteroids thick ...
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While asteroids are not moons, they share certain characteristics. The main asteroid belt is a region between Mars and Jupiter where the majority of the asteroids in the solar system are located. It is also a region which is commonly misunderstood. People hear “asteroid belt” and often thinks of a Star Wars-style region with fields of asteroids thick ...
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Collisions in the asteroid belt
Journal of Geophysical Research, 1967Generalization of Oepik theory of planetary bodies collision to include case where orbits of both colliding bodies are ...
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The importance of exploring the asteroid belt
Acta Astronautica, 1983Following life's innate tendency to expand into every available space, technological civilizations will inevitably colonize the entire galaxy establishing space habitats around all its well-behaved stars. The most reasonable place in our solar system to test this possibility is the asteroid belt, which is an ideal source of raw materials for space ...
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Resonant structure of the outer asteroid belt
Celestial Mechanics, 1984An analysis of ordered and chaotic regions of motion in the outer asteroid belt has shown that once the eccentricity of Jupiter is introduced the chaotic regions of the circular model are quite easily depleted. This suggests that also objects in neighbouring regions must be strongly perturbed.
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On the formation of the gaps in the asteroid belt
Bulletin de la Classe des sciences, 1984The problem of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt has introgued astronomers and mechanicians for more than a century. In the framework of the restricted three body problem, if we assume that Moser's work implies that circular orbits at resonances of order < 4 evolve towards larger eccentricities, thus towards lesser semimajor axes, all gaps ...
Sergysels, Roland, Wettendorff, I.
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Physical study of outer belt asteroids
Advances in Space Research, 1991Abstract Located in the proximity of Jovian resonances, the outer belt asteroids are kept from interacting with other asteroids and are likely to represent a population of primitive bodies. The systematic investigation of the physical properties of these objects and the subsequent understanding of their nature and origin, will have a direct ...
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Archaeology of the asteroid belt
Nature, 2009The size of asteroids in the Solar System's main asteroid belt may help constrain one of the least-understood aspects of planet formation — the transition from pebble-sized dust balls to mountain-sized planetesimals.
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