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Feb 28, 2019 · This workshop brings together experts to establish the current understanding of Main Belt asteroid science, as well as to debate future directions for investigation. The workshop stimulates discussions about accretion, chemistry, collisions, dynamics, geophysics, and meteorites. The workshop is limited to approximately 100 attendees. Main ...
Summary. From the viewpoint of planet formation in the Solar System, Main Belt asteroids are the remnants of the so-called planetesimal population, the building bricks of planets that formed ubiquitously all over the Solar Nebula. Over the last years evidence has grown that planetesimals formed big from the gravitational collapse of a local ...
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This plot shows the location of the main belt with respect to the planets and the Sun as well as the orbital structure of asteroid inclinations and number…
Apr 1, 2011 · Comets and asteroids have traditionally been considered two distinct separate populations of small bodies in the solar system, according to their different dynamical, observational, and compositional characteristics. The discovery of a new class of objects, the so-called, Main Belt Comets (MBCs), exhibiting a clear cometary activity but having ...
- Ivano Bertini
- 2011
Active asteroids are small Solar System bodies that have asteroid -like orbits but show comet -like visual characteristics. [1] That is, they show a coma, tail, or other visual evidence of mass-loss (like a comet), but their orbits remain within Jupiter 's orbit (like an asteroid). [2] [3] These bodies were originally designated main-belt ...
Aug 23, 2015 · Located between Mars and Jupiter, the belt ranges from 2.2 to 3.2 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun and is 1 AU thick. Its total mass is estimated to be 2.8×10 21 to 3.2×10 21 kilograms ...
