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Article #3460Re: Asteroidal Satellites
From: zellner
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:17
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:17
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> In article <C18v5H.6oA@well.sf.ca.us>, metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes: >> And the only way that asteroids can get lots of satellites orbiting >> them with anything like the observed abundance is in the explosive breakup >> of a much larger parent body. The prediction that asteroid satellites are >> numerous and commonplace originates from the exploded planet hypothesis. > Toutatis was indeed a surprise. But the "observed abundance" is still very small. Extensive groundbased surveys looking for satellite objects separated by an arcsecond or more have been uniformly negative. We have an approved Space Telescope program to look down to the HST resolution for a dozen or more candidate objects. A year from now, I'll let you know what we saw. Ben
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Newsgroups: sci.astro Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!ncar!noao!stsci!scivax!zellner From: zellner@stsci.edu Subject: Re: Asteroidal Satellites Message-ID: <1993Jan22.131723.1@stsci.edu> Lines: 18 Sender: news@stsci.edu Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute References: <20JAN199301453454@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> <3191@tymix.Tymnet.COM> <C18v5H.6oA@well.sf.ca.us> <1993Jan22.112809.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:17:23 GMT