A satellite-asteroid mystery and a possible early flux of scattered C-class asteroids

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Jul 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987icar...71...57h&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 71, July 1987, p. 57-68.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Asteroid Capture, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Flux Density, Natural Satellites, Planetary Evolution, Asteroid Belts, Planetary Atmospheres, Spectrum Analysis, Asteroids, C Asteroids, Flux, Spectrophotometry, Planets, Satellites, Capture, Spectra, Albedo, Classification, Optical Properties, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Scattering, Resonance, Hypotheses, Comparisons, Elora, Distribution, Phobos, Deimos, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, Sinope, Phoebe, Catalog, Diameters, Size

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The C spectral class implied by the neutral spectra and low albedo of probably capture-originated satellites orbiting Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars is noted to contradict evidence that class-C objects are native only to the outer half of the asteroid belt. It is presently suggested that Jupiter resonances may have scattered a high flux of C-type objects out of the belt as well as throughout the primordial solar system, at the close of planet accretion, when extended atmospheres could figure in their capture. The largest scattered object fluxes come from the resonance regions primarily populated by C-class objects, lending support to the Pollack et al. (1979) capture scenario invoking extended protoatmospheres.

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