The origin of the Trojan asteroids
Abstract
It is hypothesized that the frequency of collisions between bodies populating the asteroid zone in the past was sufficiently high for a small part of these bodies to have been captured in circum-Jovian and Trojan orbits. Conditions under which remote irregular satellites of Jupiter might have formed as a result of inelastic collisions of bodies in the asteroid zone are also examined.
- Publication:
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Astronomicheskii Vestnik
- Pub Date:
- September 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990AVest..24..244R
- Keywords:
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- Asteroid Capture;
- Planetary Evolution;
- Trojan Orbits;
- Collisions;
- Jupiter Satellites;
- Astronomy