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astro-ph.EP2015★ 51 cited
Dynamic Sublimation Pressure and the Catastrophic Breakup of Comet ISON
Jordan K. Steckloff, Brandon C. Johnson, Timothy Bowling +4
Previously proposed mechanisms have difficulty explaining the disruption of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as it approached the Sun. We describe a novel cometary disruption mechanism where…
astro-ph.EP2015★ 62 cited
The Dynamical Evolution of the Asteroid Belt
Alessandro Morbidelli, Kevin J. Walsh, David P. O'Brien +2
The asteroid belt is the leftover of the original planetesimal population in the inner solar system. However, currently the asteroids have orbits with all possible values of eccent…