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The fossilized size distribution of the main asteroid belt
- W. Bottke, D. Durda, +4 authors H. Levison
- Geology, Physics
- 1 May 2003
Planet formation models suggest the primordial main belt experienced a short but intense period of collisional evolution shortly after the formation of planetary embryos. This period is believed to… Expand
Linking the collisional history of the main asteroid belt to its dynamical excitation and depletion
- W. Bottke, D. Durda, +4 authors H. Levison
- Physics
- 1 December 2005
Abstract The main belt is believed to have originally contained an Earth mass or more of material, enough to allow the asteroids to accrete on relatively short timescales. The present-day main belt,… Expand
An Archaean heavy bombardment from a destabilized extension of the asteroid belt
- W. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlicky, +5 authors H. Levison
- Geology, Medicine
- Nature
- 3 May 2012
The barrage of comets and asteroids that produced many young lunar basins (craters over 300 kilometres in diameter) has frequently been called the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB). Many assume the LHB… Expand
COMETARY ORIGIN OF THE ZODIACAL CLOUD AND CARBONACEOUS MICROMETEORITES. IMPLICATIONS FOR HOT DEBRIS DISKS
- D. Nesvorný, P. Jenniskens, H. Levison, W. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlicky
- Physics
- 23 September 2009
The zodiacal cloud is a thick circumsolar disk of small debris particles produced by asteroid collisions and comets. Their relative contribution and how particles of different sizes dynamically… Expand
Asteroids Were Born Big
- A. Morbidelli, William Bottke, D. Nesvorný, H. Levison
- Physics
- 15 July 2009
Abstract How big were the first planetesimals? We attempt to answer this question by conducting coagulation simulations in which the planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and form larger bodies and… Expand
The recent breakup of an asteroid in the main-belt region
- D. Nesvorný, W. Bottke, L. Dones, H. Levison
- Medicine, Geology
- Nature
- 13 June 2002
The present population of asteroids in the main belt is largely the result of many past collisions. Ideally, the asteroid fragments resulting from each impact event could help us understand the… Expand
Recent Origin of the Solar System Dust Bands
- D. Nesvorný, W. Bottke, H. Levison, L. Dones
- Physics
- 1 July 2003
Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) observations in 1983 revealed the existence of several solar system dust bands. These dust bands are believed to be debris produced by recent disruption events… Expand
FORMATION OF KUIPER BELT BINARIES BY GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE
- D. Nesvorný, A. Youdin, D. C. Richardson
- Physics
- 8 July 2010
A large fraction of ~100 km class low-inclination objects in the classical Kuiper Belt (KB) are binaries with comparable masses and a wide separation of components. A favored model for their… Expand
LATE ORBITAL INSTABILITIES IN THE OUTER PLANETS INDUCED BY INTERACTION WITH A SELF-GRAVITATING PLANETESIMAL DISK
- H. Levison, A. Morbidelli, K. Tsiganis, D. Nesvorný, R. Gomes
- Physics
- 28 September 2011
We revisit the issue of the cause of the dynamical instability during the so-called Nice model, which describes the early dynamical evolution of the giant planets. In particular, we address the… Expand
How Long-Lived Are the Hypothetical Trojan Populations of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
- D. Nesvorný, L. Dones
- Physics
- 1 December 2002
We investigate the possibility that fractions of the primordial populations at the triangular Lagrangian points of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have survived to the present and form (as yet… Expand