Multi-Zone Simulations of the Collisional Evolution of Main Belt Asteroids

V. Granata, Marzari, Davis, Paolo Paolicchi, Vanzani

CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa) · 2011 · 20 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

We have adapted the planet building code, a multizone code, to study the collisional evolution of asteroids in the main belt. In this way the effects of resonances and Yarkowski's drift are statistically included and we can estimate the flux of bodies into NEO orbits.