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Jupiter Trojans (JTs) librate about the Lagrangian stationary centers L4 and L5 associated with this planet on a typically small-eccentricity and moderate-inclination heliocentric orbits. The physical and orbital properties of JTs provide…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 David Vokrouhlický , David Nesvorný , Miroslav Brož , William F. Bottke , Rogerio Deienno , Carson D. Fuls , Frank C. Shelly

With the growing numbers of asteroids being discovered, identifying an observationally complete sample is essential for statistical analyses and for informing theoretical models of the dynamical evolution of the solar system. We present an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-16 Nathanial P Hendler , Renu Malhotra

We investigated the size distribution of high-inclination main-belt asteroids (MBAs) to explore asteroid collisional evolution under hypervelocity collisions of around 10 km/s. We performed a wide-field survey for high-inclination sub-km…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tsuyoshi Terai , Yoichi Itoh

In this work, we investigate the evolution of a primordial belt of asteroids, represented by a large number of massless test particles, under the gravitational effect of migrating Jovian planets in the framework of the jumping-Jupiter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Fernando Roig , David Nesvorný

We present 0.8 to 5 $\mu$m JWST spectra of four $\sim$20 km diameter Jupiter Trojans known to have albedos elevated above the values typical in the remaining Trojan population. The spectra of these four high albedo Jupiter Trojans are all…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 Michael E. Brown , Ian Wong , Matthew Belyakov

Trojan asteroids are minor planets that share the orbit of a planet about the Sun and librate around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of stability. Although only three Mars Trojans have been discovered, models suggest that at least ten times…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 M. Todd , P. Tanga , D. M. Coward , M. G. Zadnik

Recent observations of the size-frequency distribution of zodiacal cloud particles obtained from the cratering record on the LDEF satellite (Love and Brownlee 1993) reveal a significant large particle population (100 micron diameter or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Grogan , S. F. Dermott , D. D. Durda

Stability of Hilda Asteroids in the solar system around the 3:2 resonance point is analyzed in terms of the Sun-Jupiter-asteroid elliptic restricted three-body problem. We show that the Hamiltonian of the system is well-approximated by a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Kosuke Asano , Kenichi Noba , Tomio Petrosky

This study examines the rotational characteristics of asteroids through statistical modeling of the diameter-period relationship. A statistical evaluation of the diameter-period relationship was conducted using a dataset of 34,326…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Maryam Nastaran , Atila Poro , Raziyeh Hosseini , Matin Najarzadeh

We present a comparative analysis of the spectral slope and color distributions of Jupiter Trojans, with particular attention to asteroid families. We use a sample of data from the Moving Object Catalogue of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Roig , A. O. Ribeiro , R. Gil-Hutton

We have searched Microvariability and Oscillations of STars (MOST) satellite photometry obtained in 2004, 2005, and 2007 of the solar-type star HD 209458 for Trojan asteroid swarms dynamically coupled with the system's transiting "hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-20 Reka Moldovan , Jaymie M. Matthews , Brett Gladman , William F. Bottke , David Vokrouhlicky

Aim. We construct a new arc model to represent the global perturbation induced by the Jupiter Trojans for the development of the modern planetary ephemerides. Methods. The Jupiter Trojans are divided into two groups: (1) the 226 biggest…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Jian Li , Yi-Sui Sun

Photometry results of 32 asteroids are reported from only seven observing nights on only seven fields, consisting of 34.11 cumulative hours of observations. The data were obtained with a wide-field CCD (40.5'x27.3') mounted on a small,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Polishook , N. Brosch

Sparse and serendipitous asteroid photometry obtained by wide field surveys such as the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (\ATLAS) is a valuable resource for studying the properties of large numbers of small Solar System bodies.…

Aims. The surfaces of the Trojan asteroids are steadily bombarded by interplanetary micrometeoroids, which releases ejecta of small dust particles. These particles form the faint dust arcs that are associated with asteroid clouds. Here we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-11 Xiaodong Liu , Jürgen Schmidt

In a previous paper we simulated the orbital evolution of dust particles from the Jupiter Trojan asteroids ejected by the impacts of interplanetary particles, and evaluated their overall configuration in the form of dust arcs. Here we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Xiaodong Liu , Jürgen Schmidt

By examining the absolute magnitude (H) distributions (hereafter HD) of the cold and hot populations in the Kuiper belt and of the Trojans of Jupiter, we find evidence that the Trojans have been captured from the outer part of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-06 Morbidelli Alessandro , Harold F. Levison , William Bottke , Luke Dones , David Nesvorny

We present the results of a visible spectroscopic and photometric survey of Jupiter Trojans belonging to different dynamical families carried out at the ESO-NTT telescope. We obtained data on 47 objects, 23 belonging to the L5 swarm and 24…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Fornasier , E. Dotto , O. Hainaut , F. Marzari , H. Boehnhardt , F. De Luise , M. A. Barucci

Here we measure the absolute magnitude distributions (H-distribution) of the dynamically excited and quiescent (hot and cold) Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), and test if they share the same H-distribution as the Jupiter Trojans. From a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Wesley C. Fraser , Michael E. Brown , Alessandro Morbidelli , Alex Parker , Konstantin Batygin