Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Oct 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002icar..159..271s&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 159, Issue 2, p. 271-283.
Statistics
Computation
18
Scientific paper
The stability and final outcome of a strongly interacting binary asteroid system is considered. We discuss the implications of the system transferring energy and angular momentum between rotational and translational motion while conserving the total system energy and angular momentum. Using these results we can develop a set of sufficient conditions for stability against escape and impact. These allow us to delineate several classes of final outcomes for a binary asteroid system, each of which may have implications for asteroid observations. The effects of energy dissipation on an asteroid binary system are also considered and are shown to be able to change the stability of the system against escape and impact. An example computation for the near-Earth asteroid binary 1996 FG3 is given along with a series of numerical explorations of an evolving binary system consisting of an ellipsoid and a sphere of equal mass.
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