Asteroid shapes and satellite formation: role of gravitational re-accumulation;Formes d'astéroïdes et formation de satellites : rôle de la réaccumulation gravitationnelle

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 469-480

  Consigli, Jean François ^a,b   Tanga, Paolo ^b   Comito, Carlo ^b,c   Hestroffer, Daniel ^d   Richardson, Derek C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisions; Satellites; Solar System

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447275697     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Davis D.R., Chapman C.R., Greenberg R., Weidenschilling S.J., and Harris A.W. Collisional evolution of asteroids: populations, rotations and velocities. Asteroids (1979), University of Arizona Press 528-557
2. Farinella P., Paolicchi P., and Zappalà V. The asteroids as outcomes of catastrophic collisions. Icarus 52 (1982) 409-433
3. Michel P., Benz W., Tanga P., and Richardson D.C. Formation of asteroid families by catastrophic disruption: simulations with fragmentation and gravitational reaccumulation. Icarus 160 (2002) 10-23
4. Voir aussi:. Michel P., Benz W., Tanga P., and Richardson D.C. Collisions and gravitational reaccumulation: forming asteroid families and satellites. Science 294 (2001) 1696-1700
5. Durda D.D. The formation of asteroidal satellites in catastrophic collisions. Icarus 120 (1996) 212-219
6. Durda D.D., Bottke W.F., Enke B.L., Merline W.J., Asphaug E., Richardson D.C., and Leinhardt Z.M. The formation of asteroid satellites in large impacts: results from numerical simulations. Icarus 167 (2004) 382-396
7. Doressoundiram A., Paolicchi P., Verlicchi A., and Cellino A. The formation of binary asteroids as outcomes of catastrophic collisions. Planetary Space Science 45 (1997) 757-770
8. Chauvineau B., Farinella P., and Mignard F. The lifetime of binary asteroids vs. gravitational encounters and collisions. Icarus 94 (1991) 299-310
9. Scheeres D.J. Stability of binary asteroids. Icarus 159 (2002) 271-283
10. Pravec P., and 11 collegues. Fast and slow rotation of asteroids. Icarus 148 (2000) 12-20
11. A.W. Harris, The rotation rates of very small asteroids: evidence for rubble-pile structure, in: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, vol. 27, 1996, pp. 493-494
12. Veverka J., and 16 collegues. NEAR's Flyby of 253 Mathilde: images of a C-asteroid. Science 279 (1997) 2109-2114
13. Yeomans D.K., and 12 collegues. Estimating the mass of asteroid 253 Mathilde from tracking data during the NEAR flyby. Science 279 (1997) 2106-2109
14. Love S.G., Hörz F., and Brownlee D.E. Target porosity effects on impact cratering, and collisional disruption. Icarus 105 (1993) 216-224
15. Housen K.R., Holsapple K.A., and Voss M.E. Compaction as the origin of the unusual craters on the asteroid Mathilde. Nature 402 (1999) 155-157
16. Richardson D.C., Elankumaran P., and Sanderson R.E. Numerical experiments with rubble piles: equilibrium shapes and spins. Icarus 173 (2005) 349-361
17. Magnusson P., Barucci M.A., Drummond J.D., Lumme K., and Ostro S.J. Determination of pole orientations and shapes of asteroids. Asteroids II (1989), University of Arizona Press 67-97
18. Kaasalainen M., Torppa J., and Piironen J. Models of twenty asteroids from photometric data. Icarus 159 (2002) 369-395
19. Farinella P., Paolicchi P., Tedesco E.F., and Zappalà V. Triaxial equilibrium ellipsoids among the asteroids. Icarus 46 (1981) 114-123
20. Hestroffer D., Tanga P., Cellino A., Guglielmetti F., Lattanzi M., Di Martino M., Zappalà V., and Berthier J. Asteroids observations with the Hubble Space Telescope FGS: observing strategy, data analysis and modelling process. Astronomy & Astrophysics 391 (2002) 1123-1132
21. Tanga P., Hestroffer D., Cellino A., Latttanzi M., Di Martino M., and Zappalà V. Asteroids observations with the Hubble Space Telescope FGS: duplicity search and size measurements for 6 asteroids. Astronomy & Astrophysics 401 (2003) 733-741
22. Weidenschilling S.J. How fast can an asteroid spin?. Icarus 46 (1981) 124-126
23. Drummond J.D., Weidenschilling S.J., Chapman C.R., and Davis D.R. Photometric geodesy of main-belt asteroids: II. Analysis of lightcurves for poles, periods, and shapes. Icarus 76 (1988) 19-77
24. D. Hestroffer, P. Tanga, Figures of equilibrium among binary asteroids, in: AAS, DPS meeting 37, 15.30, 2005
25. Hachisu I., and Eriguchi Y. Fission sequence and equilibrium models of rigidity rotating polytropes. Astrophysics and Space Science 99 (1984) 71-74
26. Lai D., Rasio F.A., and Shapiro S.L. Ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium-compressible models. Astrophysical Journal Supplement 88 (1993) 205-252
27. Holsapple K.A. Equilibrium configurations of solid cohesionless bodies. Icarus 154 (2001) 432-448
28. Chandrasekhar S. Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium (1969), Yale University Press
29. Barnes J., and Hut P. A hierarchical N log N force-calculation algorithm. Nature 324 (1986) 446-449
30. Bottke W.F., Durda D.D., Nesvorný D., Jedicke R., Morbidelli A., Vokrouhlický D., and Levison H.F. Linking the collisional history of the main asteroid belt to its dynamical excitation and depletion. Icarus 179 (2005) 63-94
31. Hestroffer D., and Tanga P. Asteroids from observations to models. Lect. Notes Phys. Series vol. 682 (2006) 89-116