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Main Belt Binary Asteroidal Systems With Eccentric Mutual Orbits
F. Marchis, P. Descamps, J. Berthier +5
Using 8m-10m class telescopes and their Adaptive Optics (AO) systems, we conducted a long-term adaptive optics campaign initiated in 2003 focusing on four binary asteroid systems:…
Main Belt Binary Asteroidal Systems With Circular Mutual Orbits
F. Marchis, P. Descamps, M. Baek +5
In 2003, we initiated a long-term adaptive optics campaign to study the orbit of various main-belt asteroidal systems. Here we present a consistent solution for the mutual orbits o…
New determination of the size and bulk density of the binary asteroid 22 Kalliope from observations of mutual eclipses
P. Descamps, F. Marchis, J. Pollock +16
In 2007, the M-type binary asteroid 22 Kalliope reached one of its annual equinoxes. As a consequence, the orbit plane of its small moon, Linus, was aligned closely to the Sun's li…
Angular Momemtum of Binary Asteroids: Implication for their possible origin
Pascal Descamps, Franck Marchis
We describe in this work a thorough study of the physical and orbital characteristics of extensively observed main-belt and Trojan binaries, mainly taken from the LAOSA (Large Adap…
A low density of 0.8 g/cc for the Trojan binary asteroid 617 Patroclus
Franck Marchis, Daniel Hestroffer, Pascal Descamps +15
The Trojan population consists of two swarms of asteroids following the same orbit as Jupiter and located at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of the Jupiter-Sun system (leading and fo…