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Collisional Evolution of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt: Implications for the Origin and Evolution of Small Body Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Donald R. Davis  and
Paolo Farinella
Donald R. Davis
Affiliation:
Planetary Science Institute, 620 N. 6th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85705, USA

Abstract

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Collisions have been a major process that shaped the Kuiper Belt that we see today. Collisional grinding likely played a significant role in removing mass from the trans-neptunian region and collisions are a mechanism for injecting fragments into resonances to start their journey to become short period comets. The Kuiper Belt preserves the accretional size distribution in bodies ≳ 100 km while the size distribution of smaller bodies is the result of collisional evolution. Observational confirmation of the transition size between these different regimes will constrain our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Kuiper Belt.

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Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 12: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 2000 , 2002 , pp. 219 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2002

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