Minor planets - The discovery of minor satellites

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Mar 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979sci...203..903b&link_type=abstract

Science, vol. 203, Mar. 2, 1979, p. 903-905.

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Asteroids, Natural Satellites, Astrometry, Planetary Gravitation, Stellar Occultation, Tides, Asteroids, Minor Satellites, Occultations, Discovery, Herculina Asteroid

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The recent confirmation of the discovery of a satellite of the minor planet 532 Herculina indicates that other similar anomalous sightings are probably also due to satellites, which must therefore by numerous and commonplace. There are now 23 candidate satellites for eight minor planets, and no one of these minor planets occulting a star has failed to show evidence of at least one secondary event. Such companions are gravitationally stable but apparently have rapid tidal evolution rates.

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