Turning Asteroids into Comets with ELTs
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01/09/2009
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It is clear that ELTs will be able to detect extremely weak outgassing from Solar system bodies via a number of different methods. Occultations will allow probing for outgassing around 20 km main-belt asteroids. Imaging can reveal dust emission rates of only milligrams/second in the inner solar system, while sublimation rates of gasses should be measurable down to gram/second levels. Suitable targets will be identified via the coming all-sky surveys, through both the classical dynamical Tisserand Invariant and long-baseline lightcurves. It is possible that using these methods, ELTs may allow the discovery of much more activity throughout the Solar system than is presently known. |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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Fitzsimmons , A 2009 , ' Turning Asteroids into Comets with ELTs ' Earth Moon And Planets , vol 105 , no. 2-4 , pp. 181-186 . DOI: 10.1007/s11038-009-9331-x |
Palavras-Chave | #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1901 #Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1912 #Space and Planetary Science #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3103 #Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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