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most citedAsteroids Were Born Big

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astro-ph.EP2026

Chondrite Parent Bodies as Escaped Satellites of Proto-Planetary Embryos

Harold F. Levison, Rogerio Deienno, Kevin J. Walsh +4

Chondrites are composed of formerly partially molten material, known as chondrules, surrounded by fine-grained matrix. They date from the earliest times in Solar System history. Ho…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

The Collisional Evolution of the Primordial Kuiper Belt, Its Destabilized Population, and the Trojan Asteroids

William Bottke, David Vokrouhlicky, Raphael Marshall +6

The tumultuous early era of outer solar system evolution culminated when Neptune migrated across the primordial Kuiper belt (PKB) and triggered a dynamical instability among the gi…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 19 cited

Implications for the collisional strength of Jupiter Trojans from the Eurybates family

Raphael Marschall, David Nesvorný, Rogerio Deienno +3

In this work, we model the collisional evolution of the Jupiter Trojans and determined under which conditions the Eurybates-Queta system survives. We show that the collisional stre…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

The orbit and density of the Jupiter Trojan satellite system Eurybates-Queta

M. E. Brown, H. F. Levison, K. S. Noll +8

We report observations of the Jupiter Trojan asteroid (3548) Eurybates and its satellite Queta with the Hubble Space Telescope and use these observations to perform an orbital fit…

astro-ph.IM2021

Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids: Instrumentation and Encounter Concept of Operations

Catherine B. Olkin, Harold F. Levison, Michael Vincent +19

The Lucy Mission accomplishes its science during a series of five flyby encounters with seven Trojan asteroid targets. This mission architecture drives a concept of operations desi…

astro-ph.EP2020

Convex Shape and Rotation Model of Lucy Target (11351) Leucus from Lightcurves and Occultations

Stefano Mottola, Stephan Hellmich, Marc W. Buie +4

We report new photometric lightcurve observations of the Lucy Mission target (11351) Leucus acquired during the 2017, 2018 and 2019 apparitions. We use these data in combination wi…