CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 39, No.: 1, year: 2009

Author(s): Kornoš, L.; Tóth, J.; Vereš, P.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 39, no. 1, p. 18-24.
Date: 02/2009
Title: Release of meteoroids from asteroids by Earth's tides
Keyword(s): tides, asteroid, meteoroid stream
Pages: 18 -- 24

Abstract: The orbital evolution of particles released from the surface of a rubble-pile body by Earth's tides during flyby within the Roche limit is studied. Test particles initially placed on the surface leave the surface and escape the parent body. Released particles remain in a relative small cloud for about 500 years and spread evenly along the orbit of the parent asteroid during next several hundred years. Their orbital elements exhibit very small dispersion in the mentioned time frame.

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