Solar
System Objects| Solar
System Objects |
Asteroids > s.a. {comets below}; Yarkovsky
Effect.
* Formation: Probably in the flat disk around a star, either from
leftover gas and dust, or as chunks of protoplanets as a result of collisions.
* Missions: 1996, Probe NEAR launched; 1999, Deep Space 1 encounters
Braille; 2000, NEAR meets Eros.
* Examples: Braille (between
Earth and Mars, chunk of Vesta?); Castalia; Ceres (largest); Eros; Gaspra;
Ida (binary); Mathilde; Toutatis; Vesta (in
asteroid belt, diameter 325 mi).
@ General references: Peebles 00 [history]; Asphaug SA(00)may; issue PT(04)apr.
@ And Earth: Gehrels SA(96)mar [NEO's]; Foschini A&A(99)ap/98 [Tunguska
event]; Namouni et al ap/99 [co-orbital
asteroid 3753 Cruithne]; Wiegert et al ap/99/Icarus,
Skokos & Dokoumetzidis ap/00/A&A
[Trojan]; Schweickart et al SA(03)nov, Lu & Love ap/05/Nat
[NEO tractor]; Polishook & Brosch ap/06-in
[binary NEOs]; Gratton & Perazzo AJP(06)
[catastrophic impacts]; Gasperini SA(08)may [Tunguska event].
@ Evolution: Rubin AS(97); Cheng Icarus(04); Dell'Oro et
al Icarus(04);
Durda et al Icarus(04)
[impacts and satellites]; Rubin SA(05)may [impacts and heating].
@ Related topics: Mikkola & Innauen MNRAS(95)
[and chaos]; Holman Nat(97)jun
+ pn(97)jun
[new
belt between Uranus & Neptune]; Klacka ap/00 [and
solar wind, radiation]; Marchis et al Nat(05)aug
[triple system 87 Sylvia]; Lämmerzahl
et
al gq/06-in
[anomalies]; news SFN(08)jul [reason for binaries is YORP effect].
Comets
* Idea: Roughly spherical
ice and rock balls, from the nebula out of which the solar system condensed;
Most are located in the Kuiper belt and Oort
cloud.
@ General references: Brandt & Chapman 92; Hughes CP(94)
[and asteroids]; Schaaf 97; Nuth AS(01)
[formation]; Efroimsky ASR(02)ap/01;
Fernández 05 [r PT(06)sep];
Brownlee PT(08)jun [and early solar system].
@ Halley's: Balsiger et al SA(88); Gurzadyan & Vardanyan
A&G(04)phy [87 BC].
@ Related topics: Frogel & Gould ap/98/APJL
[comet showers]; Schechner 99 [culture and history]; Ipatov ap/01-in
[near Earth]; Delsemme AS(01)
[and Earth's water]; Cirkovic EMP(02)ap/03 [Fontenelle's
anthropic argument]; Kak phy/03 [XV-XVI
cy Kashmiri chronicles]; issue Icarus(04)167#1 [19P/Borrelly].
@ Extrasolar: Lecavelier des Etangs et al ap/98/A&A.
Meteoroids
@ Danger for space navigation: Foschini in(99)phy/98.
@ Meteorites: Heide & Wlotzka 95.
@ Meteors: Yang et al Icarus(05)ap
[Asian historical records].
Kuiper Belt and TNO's > s.a. anomalous
acceleration [Pioneer effect]; {comets above}.
@ General references: Brown PT(04)apr.
@ Pluto: Stern & Mitton 97 [+Charon, r: pw(98)mar,
2nd ed 06]; Stern SA(02)may [mission]; Stern et al ap/05 [quadruple
system]; Weaver et al ap/06/Nat
[2 new satellites]; Stern a0709-SSR [New Horizons overview].
@ Other: Luu & Jewitt SA(96)may; Jewitt pw(99)jul;
Malhotra et al ap/99;
Durda & Stern Icarus(00)ap/99;
Trujillo et al ap/99;
Trujillo AS(03)sep;
Grundy et al ap/05 [albedos];
Kobayashi et al Icarus(05)
[early stellar encounter?]; Brown et al ApJL(05)ap,
ApJL(06)ap/06 [2003
UB313 larger than Pluto]; Funato ap/05-in
[binaries]; Chiang et al ap/06-in
[rev]; Cooray Nat(06)ap [a
quadrillion objects?]; Iorio MNRAS(07)gq/06 [total
mass estimate]; Carraro et al ap/06/A&AL
[Eris]; Leinhardt et al a0705-in
[collisions]; Lykawka & Mukai a0712 [origin, outer planet].
Oort Cloud and Further Out > s.a. {comets above}.
@ General references: Weissman SA(98)sep; Brown et al ApJ(04)ap
[Sedna].
@ Solar environment: Frogel & Gould ApJL(98)ap [Death
Star]; Lamers & Gieles ap/07-in
[absence of star clusters]; Kaib & Quinn a0707-Icarus
[Oort Cloud and open cluster
environment]; Wickramasinghe & Napier a0803 [impact
cratering and passage through
galactic plane]; Murphy & Bessell a0806-in [stars within 150 pc]; >
s.a. interstellar
matter [including local bubble].
In General, Other Objects > s.a. astronomical
objects; solar
planets [planets,
satellites, Moon].
@ General references: Capelle EJP(04)phy [angle
and time measurements]; Visser & Yunes ap/04, ap/04 [mass
distribution
from
critical
collapse]; Zakamska & Tremaine ap/05/ApJ
[constraints on acceleration and extra
bodies]; Zakhozhay et al ap/06-in
[catalog of satellites and minor planets]; Weintraub 06 [historical; r PT(07)oct].
@ Origin, evolution: Woolfson 00, 07;
> s.a. chaotic systems [stability].
The Sun > s.a. {#Anaxagoras}; stars [radius].
* Parameters: MSun =
(1.988435 
0.000027) ×
1030 kg (2000); Tcorona
up to 108 K
seen [@ Glanz Sci(96)jun
+ pn(96)jul].
* Solar wind: An e-p plasma
blowing away from the Sun at 400–800 km/sec, like a tenuous atmosphere (heliosphere)
extending over
most
of the
solar system.
* Oscillations: 5-minute oscillations have been seen for a long time.
@ General references: Kippenhahn 94; Phillips 95 [r PT(96)feb];
Bahcall BL(01)ap/00 [history];
Parker PT(00)jun;
Golub & Pasachoff
01; Bahcall NPPS(03)ap/02-in
[history of models].
@ Helioseismology: Harvey PT(95)oct;
Couvidat et al ap/02/ApJ
[and neutrinos].
@ Interior: Bahcall PRL(93)hp [Tcore];
Bahcall et al PRL(03) [pp vs CNO], ApJ(04)ap [depth of convective
zone].
@ Chemical abundances: Bahcall & Serenelli ApJ(05)ap/04 [and
neutrino fluxes].
@ Solar wind: Woo & Habbal AS(02)
[origin]; Cranmer ap/04-in
[review, and SOHO].
@ Missions: Lang SA(97)mar [SOHO];
Smith & Marsden SA(98)jan [Ulysses].
@ Related topics: Lydon & Sofia PRL(96)
[multipoles, and Mercury precession]; Golub & Pasachoff 97 [corona]; Ilyanok ap/99 [!!!];
Dwivedi & Phillips SA(01)jun [corona]; Sigismondi AJP(02)
[angular diameter]; Holman SA(06)apr [flares]; Orozco Suárez et al a0712-A&A
[magnetic field and granules].
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