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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Subject: Re: Asteroidal Satellites
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.132925.14634@cs.ucf.edu>
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- Organization: University of Central Florida
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:29:25 GMT
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- In article <C1CH8C.JwE@well.sf.ca.us> metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern)
- writes:
- >
- > LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET (Leonard Abbey, F.R.A.S.) writes:
- >
- > > Tom, what are the stats on binary asteroids? 10%? 5%?
- >
- > > Can we determine if any of them are in "low" orbit.....pre-contact cases?
- >
- > No, because observations generally catch them at only one instant, so
- > we cannot determine their orbits. And satellites inside the synchronous
- > orbit decay so rapidly (about 10,000 years) that we are quite unlikely to
- > catch that happening.
-
- Synchronous with respect to what? Asteroidal rotation? Asteroidal
- revolution about sun?
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- Thomas Clarke
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