Asteroid Evolution: Role of Geotechnical Properties
Abstract
This paper presents a brief review and latest results of the work that has been carried out by the Planetary Science community in order to understand the role of the geotechnical properties of granular asteroids (commonly known as ``rubble-pile'' asteroids) in their formation, evolution and possible disruption. As such, we will touch in aspects of the theoretical and numerical tools that have been used with this objective and how the obtained results compare to the observed asteroids.
- Publication:
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Asteroids: New Observations, New Models
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921315008583
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1511.08293
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUS..318..111S
- Keywords:
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- minor planets;
- asteroids;
- methods: n-body simulations;
- methods: numerical;
- methods: analytical;
- methods: laboratory;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Invited review paper presented at the XXIX IAU General Assembly, August, 2015