On the satellite capture problem.
Abstract
The possibility that the outer satellites of Jupiter were permanently captured is discussed. The various proposed capture mechanisms are examined briefly, and their shortcomings discussed. It is suggested that all the observed aspects of the outer satellites can be accounted for if the mass of Jupiter, at some time in the past, increased by about 130 earth masses, on a time scale of the order of one sidereal period of Jupiter.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- December 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/173.3.579
- Bibcode:
- 1975MNRAS.173..579B
- Keywords:
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- Capture Effect;
- Jupiter (Planet);
- Natural Satellites;
- Three Body Problem;
- Angular Momentum;
- Asteroids;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Momentum Transfer;
- Tides;
- Astronomy