The smaller bodies of the solar system

Details The smaller bodies of the solar system The smaller bodies of the solar system

Sep 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975sciam.233..142h&link_type=abstract

Scientific American, vol. 233, Sept. 1975, p. 142-147 (8 ff.).

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Asteroids, Comets, Meteoroids, Natural Satellites, Solar System, Interplanetary Dust, Micrometeoroids, Planetary Evolution, Solar Orbits, Space Debris

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The lesser bodies of the solar system are considered, including planetary satellites, asteroids, comets, meteoric debris, and dust grains. Studies of Titan and the moon are reviewed, the mass distribution among all the bodies in the solar system is examined, and the classification of asteroids is discussed together with their physical nature. Physical characteristics are described for Jupiter's 13 satellites (especially Io and the other three Galileans), Saturn's rings and 10 satellites (in particular, Titan, Phoebe, and Iapetus), Uranus' five moons, and Neptune's two. Some characteristics of comets are briefly noted. The evolutionary history of the small-body population is traced in three hypothetical stellar systems: one where the number of dust grains initially condensing in the solar nebula is relatively small, one where the number is relatively large, and one where it is intermediate. The last system is representative of the solar system.

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