Open AccessThe orbital dispersion of the macroscopic Taurid objects
Author(s) -
D. I. Steel,
D. J. Asher
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-8711
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1093/mnras/280.3.806
Subject(s) - physics , asteroid , gravitation , astronomy , astrophysics , comet , classical mechanics , celestial mechanics , dispersion (optics) , quantum mechanics
If the Taurid Complex asteroids (plus 2P/Encke) are derived from the fragmentation of a giant comet over the past 20–30 kyr, as we have suggested elsewhere, then we need to identify some mechanism which could cause the observed dispersion in semimajor axes (1.8
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