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An Upper Limit on Gas Production from 3200 Phaethon
Paul A. Wiegert, Martin Houde, Ruisheng Peng
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon resembles a comet in some ways, including a highly-eccentric orbit (e=0.89) and a strong associated meteor shower (the Geminids). Yet this object has never b…
Evidence for a colour dependence in the size distribution of main belt asteroids
Paul Wiegert, David Balam, Andrea Moss +3
We present the results of a project to detect small (~1 km) main-belt asteroids with the 3.6 meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). We observed in 2 filters (MegaPrime g' and…
Earth Trojan asteroids: A study in support of observational searches
Paul Wiegert, Kimmo Innanen, Seppo Mikkola
Observational searches for asteroids orbiting near Earth's triangular Lagrange points face unique obstacles. A population of such asteroids would occupy a large projected area on t…
Long-Term Stability of Planets in Binary Systems
Matthew Holman, Paul Wiegert
A simple question of celestial mechanics is investigated: in what regions of phase space near a binary system can planets persist for long times? The planets are taken to be test p…
The Evolution of Long-Period Comets
Paul Wiegert, Scott Tremaine
We study the evolution of long-period comets by numerical integration of their orbits, following comets from their origin in the Oort cloud until their final escape or destruction,…
The Stability of Planets in the Alpha Centauri system
Paul A. Wiegert, Matt Holman
This paper investigates the long-term orbital stability of small bodies near the central binary of the Alpha Centauri system. Test particles on circular orbits are integrated in th…