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地球撞击者2018 LA的空中爆炸前轨道演化:更新

Pre-airburst Orbital Evolution of Earth's Impactor 2018 LA: An Update

C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos

摘要:

阿波罗流星体2018 LA已经成为有史以来第三个在造成流星空中爆炸之前被发现的自然物体,也是第二个被发现的陨石(在博茨瓦纳的中央卡拉哈里野生动物保护区)。在这里,我们使用2018 LA的最新轨道确定(解决方案日期为2018年7月18日),使用D标准(这是研究轨道相似性的指标)和N体模拟来搜索与2018 LA相当的路径移动的次要天体。我们的研究结果进一步证实了可能与2018 LA有关的小行星动态分组的存在,并表明撞击物可能是由更大的物体产生的最近碎片,即550米宽的潜在危险小行星(454100)2013 BO 73。454100在下一次飞越地球时的光谱观测(最亮的视星等为2018年11月中旬的18.4等)可能会证实或否认与2018年LA回收的陨石类似的化学成分。

英文摘要:

Apollo meteoroid 2018 LA has become only the third natural object ever to be discovered prior to causing a meteor airburst and just the second one to have its meteorites recovered (at Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve). Here, we use the latest orbit determination of 2018 LA (solution date 18-July-2018) to search for minor bodies moving in paths comparable to that of 2018 LA using the D-criteria, which are metrics to study orbit similarity, and N-body simulations. Our results further confirm the existence of a dynamical grouping of asteroids that might be related to 2018 LA and show that the impactor could be a recent fragment spawned by a larger object, the 550-m wide, potentially hazardous asteroid (454100) 2013 BO73. Spectroscopic observations of 454100 during its next flyby with our planet (brightest at an apparent visual magnitude of 18.4 on 2018 mid-November) may confirm or deny a putative similar chemical composition to that of the recovered meteorites of 2018 LA.

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