How many Vesta-like bodies existed in the asteroid belt?OPEN ACCESS
T. H. Burbine, R. C. Greenwood, B. Zhang, P. C. Buchanan MAPS, Version of Record online: 24 January 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Asteroid 4 Vesta is typically thought to be the parent body…
Gaia view of primitive inner-belt asteroid families: Searching for the origins of asteroids Bennu and RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Marco Delbo, Chrysa Avdellidou, Kevin J. Walsh Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, were visited, characterised, and sampled by the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions: remote sensing…
Dynamical orbital evolution of asteroids and planetesimals across distinct chemical reservoirs due to accretion growth of planets in the early solar systemOPEN ACCESS
Sandeep Sahijpal Astrophysics & Astronomy, 2023, Preprint PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “N-body numerical simulations code for the orbital motion of asteroids/planetesimals within the asteroid belt under the gravitational influence of the sun and the accreting planets…
Terrestrial planet and asteroid belt formation by Jupiter–Saturn chaotic excitationOPEN ACCESS
Patryk Sofia Lykawka & Takashi Ito Scientific Reports, Volume 13, Article number: 4708 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The terrestrial planets formed by accretion of asteroid-like objects within the inner solar system’s protoplanetary disk. Previous…
Dynamical origin of the Dwarf Planet CeresOPEN ACCESS
Rafael Ribeiro de Sousa, Alessandro Morbidelli, Rodney Gomes, Ernesto Vieira Neto, Andre Izidoro, Abreuçon Atanasio Alves IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 18 February 2022 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) (draft version, 21 February 2022) “Highlights…
How much water was delivered from the asteroid belt to the Earth after its formation?OPEN ACCESS
Rebecca G. Martin, Mario Livio Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Earth contains between one and ten oceans of water, including water within the mantle, where one ocean is the mass…
Asteroid break-ups and meteorite delivery to Earth the past 500 million yearsOPEN ACCESS
Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz PNAS June 15, 2021 118 (24) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary Information “The meteoritic material falling on Earth is believed to derive from large break-up or cratering events in…
Dynamical evolution of the inner asteroid belt
Stanley F Dermott, Dan Li, Apostolos A Christou, Thomas J J Kehoe, Carl D Murray, J Malcolm Robinson Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPublished: 17 May 2021 LINK “A determination of the dynamical evolution…
Arrival and magnetization of carbonaceous chondrites in the asteroid belt before 4562 million years agoOPEN ACCESS
Timothy O’Brien, John A. Tarduno, Atma Anand, Aleksey V. Smirnov, Eric G. Blackman, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback & Alexander N. Krot Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 1, Article number: 54 (2020) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorite…
Identification of meteorite source regions in the solar systemOPEN ACCESS
Mikael Granvik, Peter Brown Icarus Available online 14 April 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Over the past decade there has been a large increase in the number of automated camera networks that monitor…
Oxygen isotope reservoirs in the outer asteroid belt inferred from oxygen isotope systematics of chondrule olivines and isolated forsterite and olivine grains in Tagish Lake-type carbonaceous chondrites, WIS 91600 and MET 00432OPEN ACCESS
Masakuni Yamanobe, Tomoki Nakamura, Daisuke Nakashima Polar Science Volume 15, March 2018, Pages 29-38 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “To understand oxygen isotope ratios and redox conditions of the chondrule formation environments of the…
The empty primordial asteroid beltOPEN ACCESS
Sean N. Raymond, Andre Izidoro Science Advances 13 Sep 2017: Vol. 3, no. 9, e1701138 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701138 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) (authors’ version) Blog post by S.N. Raymond “The asteroid…
The Asteroid Belt as a Relic From a Chaotic Early Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Andre Izidoro, Sean N. Raymond, Arnaud Pierens, Alessandro Morbidelli, Othon C. Winter, David Nesvorny Accepted for publication in ApJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “The orbital structure of the asteroid belt holds a record of the…
Terrestrial Planet Formation Constrained by Mars and the Structure of the Asteroid Belt
André Izidoro, Sean N. Raymond, Alessandro Morbidelli, Othon C. Winter Accepted for publication in MNRAS update (Sept 9): MNRAS (November 11, 2015) 453 (4): 3619-3634. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1835 First published online September 9, 2015 PDF (full…
Fragments of Late Eocene Earth-impacting asteroids linked to disturbance of asteroid belt
Birger Schmitz , Samuele Boschi , Anders Cronholm , Philipp R. Heck , Simonetta Monechi , Alessandro Montanari , Fredrik Terfelt Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 425, 1 September 2015, Pages 77–83 LINK
The Dynamical Evolution of the Asteroid Belt
Alessandro Morbidelli, Kevin J. Walsh, David P. O’Brien, David A. Minton, William F. Bottke Asteroid IV PDF LINK (full text) LINK
