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Article #3678Re: Asteroidal Satellites
From: Thomas Clarke
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:29
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:29
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In article <C1CH8C.JwE@well.sf.ca.us> metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes: > > LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET (Leonard Abbey, F.R.A.S.) writes: > > > Tom, what are the stats on binary asteroids? 10%? 5%? > > > Can we determine if any of them are in "low" orbit.....pre-contact cases? > > No, because observations generally catch them at only one instant, so > we cannot determine their orbits. And satellites inside the synchronous > orbit decay so rapidly (about 10,000 years) that we are quite unlikely to > catch that happening. Synchronous with respect to what? Asteroidal rotation? Asteroidal revolution about sun? -- Thomas Clarke Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826 (407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.astro Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!cs.ucf.edu!news From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) Subject: Re: Asteroidal Satellites Message-ID: <1993Jan26.132925.14634@cs.ucf.edu> Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system) Organization: University of Central Florida References: <C1CH8C.JwE@well.sf.ca.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:29:25 GMT Lines: 21