On a scattered-disk origin for the 2003 EL61 collisional family - An example of the importance of collisions on the dynamics of small bodies

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1079-1088

  Levison, Harold F ^a   Morbidelli, Alessandro ^b   Vokrouhlick, David ^c   Bottke, William F ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Kuiper Belt Solar system: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 56449091069     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/136/3/1079     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Benz, W. & Asphaug, E. 1999, Catastrophic disruptions revisited, Icarus, 142, 5-20
2. Bernstein, G. M., Trilling, D. E., Allen, R. L., Brown, M. E., Holman, M., & Malhotra, R. 2004, The size distribution of trans-Neptunian bodies, AJ, 128, 1364-1390
3. Bottke, W. F., Nolan, M. C., Greenberg, R., & Kolvoord, R. A. 1994, Velocity distributions among colliding asteroids, Icarus, 107, 255-268
4. Brown, M. E. 2001, The inclination distribution of the Kuiper belt, AJ, 121, 2804-2814
5. Brown, M. E., Barkume, K. M., Ragozzine, D., & Schaller, E. L. 2007, A collisional family of icy objects in the Kuiper belt, Nature, 446, 294-296
6. Brown, M. E. & Schaller, E. L. 2007, The mass of dwarf planet Eris, Science, 316, 1585
7. Brown, M. E., Trujillo, C. A., & Rabinowitz, D. L. 2005a, Discovery of a planetary-sized object in the scattered Kuiper belt, ApJ, 635, L97-L100
8. 61, ApJ, 632, L45-L48
9. Canup, R. M. 2005, A giant impact origin of Pluto-Charon, Science, 307, 546-550
10. Davis, D. R. & Farinella, P. 1997, Collisional evolution of Edgeworth-Kuiper belt objects, Icarus, 125, 50-60
11. Dones, L., Weissman, P.R., Levison, H. F., & Duncan, M. J. 2004, Oort cloud formation and dynamics, Comets II, 153-174
12. Doressoundiram, A., Barucci, M. A., Romon, J., & Veillet, C. 2001, Multicolor photometry of trans-Neptunian objects, Icarus, 154, 277-286
13. Duncan, M. J. & Levison, H. F. 1997, A scattered comet disk and the origin of Jupiter family comets, Science, 276, 1670-1672
14. Duncan, M. J., Levison, H. F., & Budd, S. M. 1995, The dynamical structure of the Kuiper belt, AJ, 110, 3073-3081
15. Duncan, M., Levison, H., & & Dones, L. 2004, Dynamical evolution of ecliptic comets, Comets II, 193-204
16. Gladman, B., Kavelaars, J. J., Petit, J.-M., Morbidelli, A., Holman, M. J., & Loredo, T. 2001, The structure of the Kuiper Belt: size distribution and radial extent, AJ, 122, 1051-1066
17. Gomes, R. S. 2003, The origin of the Kuiper belt high-inclination population, Icarus, 161, 404-418
18. Gomes, R. S., Fernndez, J., Gallardo, T., & Brunini, A. 2008, The Solar System Beyond Neptune, ed. M. A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D. P. Cruikshank, & A. Morbidelli (Tucson, AZ: Univ. Arizona), 259-273
19. Gomes, R. S., Levison, H. F., Tsiganis, K., & Morbidelli, A. 2005, Origin of the cataclysmic late heavy bombardment period of the terrestrial planets, Nature, 435, 466-469
20. Hahn, J. M. & Malhotra, R. 2005, Neptune's migration into a stirred-up Kuiper belt: a detailed comparison of simulations to observations, AJ, 130, 2392-2414
21. Kenyon, S. J. & Bromley, B. C. 2002, Collisional cascades in planetesimal disks. I. Stellar flybys, AJ, 123, 1757-1775
22. Kenyon, S. J. & Bromley, B. C. 2004, The size distribution of Kuiper belt objects, AJ, 128, 1916-1926
23. Kenyon, S. J., Bromley, B. C., O'Brien, D. P., & Davis, D. R. 2008, arXiv:0704.0259v1
24. Kenyon, S. J. & Luu, J. X. 1998, Accretion in the early Kuiper belt. I. Coagulation and velocity evolution, AJ, 115, 2136-2160
25. Kenyon, S. J. & Luu, J. X. 1999, Accretion in the early outer solar system, ApJ, 526, 465-470
26. Kuchner, M. J., Brown, M. E., & Holman, M. 2002, Long-term dynamics and the orbital inclinations of the classical Kuiper belt objects, AJ, 124, 1221-1230
27. Levison, H. F. & Duncan, M. J. 1994, The long-term dynamical behavior of short-period comets, Icarus, 108, 18-36
28. Levison, H. F. & Duncan, M. J. 1997, From the Kuiper belt to Jupiter-family comets: the spatial distribution of ecliptic comets, Icarus, 127, 13-32
29. Levison, H. F. & Morbidelli, A. 2003, The formation of the Kuiper belt by the outward transport of bodies during Neptune's migration, Nature, 426, 419-421
30. Levison, H. F., Morbidelli, A., Van Laerhoven, C., Gomes, R., & Tsiganis, K. 2008, Origin of the structure of the Kuiper belt during a dynamical instability in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, Icarus, 196, 258-273
31. Levison, H. F. & Stern, S. A. 2001, On the size dependence of the inclination distribution of the main Kuiper belt, AJ, 121, 1730-1735
32. Malhotra, R. 1995, The origin of Pluto's orbit: implications for the solar system beyond Neptune, AJ, 110, 420
33. Morbidelli, A. 2007, Solar system: portrait of a suburban family, Nature, 446, 273-274
34. Morbidelli, A., Emel'yanenko, V. V., & Levison, H. F. 2004, Origin and orbital distribution of the trans-Neptunian scattered disc, MNRAS, 355, 935-940
35. Morbidelli, A., Levison, H. F., & Gomes, R. 2007, The dynamical structure of the Kuiper belt and its primordial origin, The Kuiper Belt, in press
36. Morbidelli, A., Levison, H. F., Tsiganis, K., & Gomes, R. 2005, Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early solar system, Nature, 435, 462-465
37. Morbidelli, A. & Valsecchi, G. B. 1997, Note: Neptune scattered planetesimals could have sculpted the primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, Icarus, 128, 464-468
38. Morbidelli, A., Zappala, V., Moons, M., Cellino, A., & Gonczi, R. 1995, Asteroid families close to mean motion resonances: dynamical effects and physical implications, Icarus, 118, 132
39. Nagasawa, M. & Ida, S. 2000, Sweeping secular resonances in the Kuiper belt caused by depletion of the solar nebula, AJ, 120, 3311-3322
40. Nesvorn, D., Vokrouhlick, D., Bottke, W. F., Gladman, B., & Häggström, T. 2007a, Express delivery of fossil meteorites from the inner asteroid belt to Sweden, Icarus, 188, 400-413
41. Nesvorn, D., Vokrouhlick, D., & Morbidelli, A. 2007b, Capture of irregular satellites during planetary encounters, AJ, 133, 1962-1976
42. Noll, K. S., Grundy, W. M., Stephens, D. C., Levison, H. F., & Kern, S. D. 2008, Evidence for two populations of classical trans-Neptunian objects: the strong inclination dependence of classical binaries, Icarus, 194, 758-768
43. R = 22 to 25, MNRAS, 365, 429-438
44. Rabinowitz, D. L., Barkume, K., Brown, M. E., Roe, H., Schwartz, M., Tourtellotte, S., & Trujillo, C. 2006, Photometric observations constraining the size, shape, and albedo of 2003 EL61: a rapidly rotating, Pluto-sized object in the Kuiper belt, ApJ, 639, 1238-1251
45. Ragozzine, D. & Brown, M. E. 2007, Candidate members and age estimate of the family of Kuiper belt object 2003 EL61, AJ, 134, 2160-2167
46. Sheppard, S. S. & Trujillo, C. A. 2006, A thick cloud of Neptune Trojans and their colors, Science, 313, 511-514
47. Stern, S. A. 1996, On the collisional environment, accretion time scales, and architecture of the massive, primordial Kuiper belt, AJ, 112, 1203
48. Stern, S. A. & Colwell, J. E. 1997a, Accretion in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt: forming 100-1000 km radius bodies at 30 AU and beyond, AJ, 114, 841
49. Stern, S. A. & Colwell, J. E. 1997b, Collisional erosion in the primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper belt and the generation of the 30-50 AU Kuiper gap, ApJ, 490, 879
50. Tegler, S. C. & Romanishin, W. 2000, Extremely red Kuiper-belt objects in near-circular orbits beyond 40 AU, Nature, 407, 979-981
51. Thommes, E. W., Duncan, M. J., & Levison, H. F. 1999, The formation of Uranus and Neptune in the Jupiter-Saturn region of the solar system, Nature, 402, 635-638
52. Thommes, E. W., Duncan, M. J., & Levison, H. F. 2002, The formation of Uranus and Neptune among Jupiter and Saturn, AJ, 123, 2862-2883
53. Trujillo, C. A., Jewitt, D. C., & Luu, J. X. 2000, Population of the scattered Kuiper belt, ApJ, 529, L103-L106
54. Tsiganis, K., Gomes, R., Morbidelli, A., & Levison, H. F. 2005, Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the solar system, Nature, 435, 459-461