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Small bodies of the Solar System
Nature, 2000Discoveries of comets that behave like asteroids and asteroids that behave like comets are making us reassess our view of Earth's smallest neighbours. Discoveries of comets that behave like asteroids and asteroids that behave like comets are making us reassess our view of Earth's smallest neighbours.
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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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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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Small Bodies of the Solar System
1995Neptune 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
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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Collective Resonant Phenomena On Small Bodies In The Solar System
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 1992For both asteroids and meteor streams, and also for comets, resonances playa major role for their orbital evolutions but on different time scales. For asteroids both mean motion resonances and secular resonances not only structure the phase space of regular orbits but are mainly at the origin for the inherent chaos of planet crosser objects.
Froeschlé, Ch., Froeschlé, C.
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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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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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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.
Milan Burša, Vladimir Vanýsek
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Exploration of Small Solar System Bodies
2016So far we have learnt a lot about the different types of Small Solar System Bodies and dwarf planets. Yet, the question remains. How do we get all the information from these small, distant bodies? These small objects are very difficult to observe. Using optical telescopes, even the largest ones we currently have on Earth, it is hardly possible to see ...
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