Asteroid satellites formed by tidal disruption

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Nov 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.500..737r&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets, Meteors - ACM 2002. International Conference, 29 July - 2 August 2002, Berlin, Germany. Ed

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Asteroids, Tidal Disruption, Satellites

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Results from simulations of the tidal disruption of km-sized gravitational aggregates are presented. In many cases the post-encounter remnants form binaries that are stable for at least 60 d. The physical and orbital properties of these binaries vary over a wide range and show that tidal disruption can lead to the formation of double asteroids with spheroidal or ellipsoidal components of near-equal mass. Systems with large mass ratios are also readily formed. Orbital eccentricities as low as 0.09 were seen, suggesting many systems could be stable over very long time periods.

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