Footprints of a possible Ceres asteroid paleo-family - Sorbonne Université
Journal Articles Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Year : 2016

Footprints of a possible Ceres asteroid paleo-family

Abstract

Ceres is the largest and most massive body in the asteroid main belt. Observational data from the Dawn spacecraft reveal the presence of at least two impact craters about 280 km in diameter on the Ceres surface, that could have expelled a significant number of fragments. Yet, standard techniques for identifying dynamical asteroid families have not detected any Ceres family. In this work, we argue that linear secular resonances with Ceres deplete the population of objects near Ceres. Also, because of the high escape velocity from Ceres, family members are expected to be very dispersed, with a considerable fraction of km-sized fragments that should be able to reach the pristine region of the main belt, the area between the 5J:-2A and 7J:-3A mean-motion resonances, where the observed number of asteroids is low. Rather than looking for possible Ceres family members near Ceres, here we propose to search in the pristine region. We identified 156 asteroids whose taxonomy, colours, albedo could be compatible with being fragments from Ceres. Remarkably, most of these objects have inclinations near that of Ceres itself.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
10 Footprints of a possible Ceres asteroid paleo-family.pdf (1.25 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origin Publisher files allowed on an open archive
Loading...

Dates and versions

hal-02481165 , version 1 (17-02-2020)

Identifiers

Cite

V Carruba, D. Nesvorný, S. Marchi, Safwan Aljbaae. Footprints of a possible Ceres asteroid paleo-family. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, 458 (1), pp.1117 - 1126. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stw380⟩. ⟨hal-02481165⟩
30 View
43 Download

Altmetric

Share

More