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Feb 28, 2019 · The Main Belt: A Gateway to the Formation and Early Evolution of the Solar System | Planetary News. Workshop, Sardinia, Italy | June 4-7, 2019. The Main Asteroid Belt is at the boundary of the inner and outer solar system. It marks a transition region from the rocky volatile-poor inner terrestrial planets to the outer gaseous and icy giant planets.
Nov 14, 2017 · We review the evidence for buried ice in the asteroid belt; specifically the questions around the so-called Main Belt Comets (MBCs). We summarise the evidence for water throughout the Solar System, and describe the various methods for detecting it, including remote sensing from ultraviolet to radio wavelengths.
- Colin Snodgrass, Jessica Agarwal, Michael Combi, Alan Fitzsimmons, Aurelie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Henry ...
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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 ...
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 · The Main Belt consists primarily of three categories of asteroids: C-type, or carbonaceous asteroids; S-type, or silicate asteroids; and M-type, or metallic asteroids. Carbonaceous asteroids...
Jan 10, 2012 · The main belt comets (MBCs) are a recently discovered class of objects, composed until now by only four objects (Table 1). These objects are puzzling because they are orbiting in the main belt on stable orbits, with Tisserand invariant with respect to Jupiter higher than 3, but at the same time they are showing a more or less stable cometary ...
