The 2007 BAA Presidential Address: Asteroids: past, present and future

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Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008jbaa..118..187m&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.118, no.4, p.187-198

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For many years, our traditional view of asteroids has been limited to those objects orbiting between the paths of Mars and Jupiter now known as the Main Belt. But within just the last 15 years or so, our perspective has radically changed with the discovery of many bodies occupying the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt and other so-called Scattered Disk objects, the orbits of which extend well beyond the conventional confines of the solar system previously delineated by the planets Neptune and Pluto. How did this come to pass? In this paper, I shall describe the evolution of our knowledge of this system of minor planets, not only to provide some answers to this question but also to illustrate how our understanding of these mysterious objects has developed and how it might expand in the future. In so doing I shall also trace those activities which involved the BAA and more particularly the Asteroids and Remote Planets Section.

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