Formation of sharp edges and planar areas of asteroids by polyhedral abrasion

Details Formation of sharp edges and planar areas of asteroids by polyhedral abrasion Formation of sharp edges and planar areas of asteroids by polyhedral abrasion

2009-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4423v1

Astrophys.J.699:L13-L16,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

17 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/699/1/L13

While the number of asteroids with known shapes has drastically increased over the past few years, little is known on the the time-evolution of shapes and the underlying physical processes. Here we propose an averaged abrasion model based on micro-collisons, accounting for asteroids not necessarily evolving toward regular spheroids, rather (depending on the fall-back rate of ejecta) following an alternative path, thus confirming photometry-derived features, e.g. existence of large, relatively flat areas separated by edges. We show that our model is realistic, since the bulk of the collisions falls into this category.

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