• DOI:10.1007/s10509-014-1993-9
Corpus ID: 119255885

Large retrograde Centaurs: visitors from the Oort cloud?

@article{Marcos2014LargeRC,
  title={Large retrograde Centaurs: visitors from the Oort cloud?},
  author={C. D. L. F. Marcos and R. D. L. F. Marcos},
  journal={Astrophysics and Space Science},
  year={2014},
  volume={352},
  pages={409-419}
}

• C. D. L. F. Marcos, R. D. L. F. Marcos
• Published 2014
• Physics
• Astrophysics and Space Science

Among all the asteroid dynamical groups, Centaurs have the highest fraction of objects moving in retrograde orbits. The distribution in absolute magnitude, H, of known retrograde Centaurs with semi-major axes in the range 6–34 AU exhibits a remarkable trend: 10 % have H 12 mag. The largest objects, namely (342842) 2008 YB3, 2011 MM4 and 2013 LU28, move in almost polar, very eccentric paths; their nodal points are currently located near perihelion and aphelion. In the group of retrograde… Expand

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