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Small Bodies of the Solar System [PDF]
, 1995 Neptune had been discovered in 1846 because of irregularities in the orbit of Uranus, but, in many ways, its discovery was fortunate, as it was much closer to Uranus than either Le Verrier or Adams had assumed. Le Verrier was not convinced that Neptune was the limit of the solar system, and said so to Galle on 1st October 1846, but he recognised that ...
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Small Bodies of the Solar System
Reviews of Geophysics, 1991This report summarizes some of the significant results achieved in the last four years on asteroids, comets, and small satellites. These objects are interrelated in several ways - some objects may be considered either asteroids or comets; some small satellites may have been comets or asteroids captured into planetary orbits; and these small, low ...
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The Small Bodies of the Solar System
2001Comets have been seen since time immemorialbut asteroids were only discovered at the begining of the nineteenth century while the first members of the family of bodies that orbit in the region beyond Neptune were only discovered within the last ten years.
Iwan P. Williams, Alan Fitzsimmons
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Dynamic simulation of small solar system bodies [PDF]
Astronomical & Astrophysical Transactions, 1998 Abstract As part of a dynamical study of small transneptunian bodies, in particular, of the cometary Oort cloud, a simulation of orbital evolution under the influence of the Galactic gravitational field was performed. The tidal Galactic potential includes a term corresponding to the Sun's orbital motion around the Galaxy's centre (core) in the point ...
V. M. Chepurova, S. L. Semenova
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The Diverse Population of Small Bodies of the Solar System
2017Small bodies are rocky and/or icy objects, usually ranging in size from a few meters to a few hundreds of kilometers. They comprise near-Earth and main belt asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, trans-Neptunian objects, Centaurs, comets, and a recently discovered category called the transitional objects.
de León, Julia +2 more
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Triaxiality of satellites and small bodies in the Solar System
Earth, Moon, and Planets, 1996The triaxial figures are very common shape of most of planetary satellites as well as of smaell bodies as asteroids. There are 21 satellites in the Solar System triaxial figures of which were detected in situ evidently (Davies et al., 1995). However, the total number of triaxiaxial satellites in the Solar System should be in fact larger.
Vladimír Vanýsek, Milan Burša
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Shape of small solar system bodies
Solar System Research, 2014The morphometric parameters are examined for the shape of fragments of ordinary chondrites, iron meteorites, S- and C-class stony asteroids, metallic asteroids, and icy small bodies of the Solar System. All small Solar System bodies are shown to have, depending on their composition and, hence, physical and mechanical properties, a specific shape that ...
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Small bodies and dust in the outer solar system
Advances in Space Research, 2004We present our current understandings of small bodies and dust grains located in the outer Solar System. Small icy bodies – Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt objects (EKBOs) and Oort Cloud objects orbit the Sun at distances from Neptune’s orbit outward to 10 4 –10 5 AU.
Hiroshi Kimura +5 more
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Small Bodies of the Solar System
1999In addition to the Sun, Moon and major planets, the lesser members of the Solar System can also be participants in transient phenomena of interest to the astronomical observer. Meteor activity, produced by small particles – meteoroids – usually of cometary origin, has already been discussed (Chapter 2).
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Dynamics of small bodies in the solar system
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2010In this chapter we review key results on the dynamics of small solar-system bodies, such as asteroids and comets. We begin by presenting the main populations of small bodies in the solar system, in terms of their orbital characteristics. We define the different types of resonant interactions for small bodies, relating them to the orbital structure of ...
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