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2009年的一次碰撞是小行星P/2010 A2碎片尾迹的起源

A collision in 2009 as the origin of the debris trail of asteroid P/2010 A2

Colin Snodgrass, Cecilia Tubiana, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Holger Sierks, Stubbe Hviid, Richard Moissl, Hermann Boehnhardt, Cesare Barbieri, Detlef Koschny, Phili… 展开作者

Colin Snodgrass, Cecilia Tubiana, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Holger Sierks, Stubbe Hviid, Richard Moissl, Hermann Boehnhardt, Cesare Barbieri, Detlef Koschny, Philippe Lamy, Hans Rickman, Rafael Rodrigo, Benoît Carry, Stephen C. Lowry, Ryan J. M. Laird, Paul R. Weissman, Alan Fitzsimmons, Simone Marchi

摘要:

P/2010 A2是2010年1月LINEAR近地小行星巡天发现的奇特天体,虽然没有中央凝聚或彗发,但由于存在物质痕迹而被命名为彗星。这一天体出现在主小行星带内的小行星轨道(偏心率和倾角都很小)上,引起了人们的注意,因为它可能是最近确认的“主带彗星"类的新成员。如果得到证实,这一新的对象将大大扩大范围内的太阳中心的距离超过MBCs被发现。在这里,我们提出的意见,从独特的观察几何提供了欧空局的罗塞塔航天器,远离地球,这表明,痕迹是由于一个单一的事件,而不是一个时期的彗星活动,在协议的独立结果从哈勃太空望远镜(HST)。这条轨迹是由毫米到厘米大小的相对较大的颗粒组成的,它们仍然靠近母小行星。轨迹的形状可以解释为最初的冲击喷射出大团块的碎片,这些碎片几乎立即分解和分散。我们确定这是2009年2月10日左右发生的小行星碰撞。

英文摘要:

The peculiar object P/2010 A2 was discovered by the LINEAR near-Earth asteroid survey in January 2010 and given a cometary designation due to the presence of a trail of material, although there was no central condensation or coma. The appearance of this object, in an asteroidal orbit (small eccentricity and inclination) in the inner main asteroid belt attracted attention as a potential new member of the recently recognized class of 'Main Belt Comets' (MBCs). If confirmed, this new object would greatly expand the range in heliocentric distance over which MBCs are found. Here we present observations taken from the unique viewing geometry provided by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, far from the Earth, that demonstrate that the trail is due to a single event rather than a period of cometary activity, in agreement with independent results from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The trail is made up of relatively large particles of millimetre to centimetre size that remain close to the parent asteroid. The shape of the trail can be explained by an initial impact ejecting large clumps of debris that disintegrated and dispersed almost immediately. We determine that this was an asteroid collision that occurred around February 10, 2009.

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