Are Asteroid Shapes Compatible With Gravitational Reaccumulation?

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Sep 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006dps....38.6506t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #65.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.615

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Several lines of evidences suggest that, after the breakup following a catastrophic disruption, the fragments can form asteroids that are kept together only by gravity. The details of the gravitational reaccumulation process are however poorly known. In particular, the angular momentum transported by the fragments could directly influence the final shape of the resulting aggregate. We investigated the origin of asteroids shapes by simulating the gravitational collapse of a set of mono-disperse spherical particles, and by studying the way they form the aggregate. We next compare the resulting aggregate's shape to possible equilibrium figures corresponding to theoretical models. The results show, that only a precise category of shapes (flattened spheroids) are created via this mechanism. This may provide interesting constraints on the evolution of asteroid shapes, in particular for those with one, or more, satellites.

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