Binary Asteroids

 

Binary asteroids (like Ida and Dactyl here on the right) are especially interesting objects because the astronomer can learn more about the asteroid's interior and history when a couple is studied. Why? See below for some details and results:

·          On Binary Asteroids

 

·          Observational evidence for binaries "divorce".

·          Press release.

·          Paper at: Nature 466, 1085-1088.

 

·          Asteroids suspected as formed by collision were probably formed by rotational-fission

·          Paper at: Icarus in press.

 

·          Spectroscopic and Photometric Observations of Binary Asteroids:

·          Paper at: M&PS 44, 1955-1966.

·          A scientific lecture given at the ACM 2008, Baltimore, USA.

 

·          Interesting Papers From the Literature

·          2nd workshop on Binaries of the Solar Systme, Poznan, 2010

·          Links:

·          Jhonston's asteroids with satellites

·          Radar observations

·          Pravec's binaries

·        The Virtual Observatory Binary Asteroids Database (VOBAD)