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Date: Jul 9 20:57 2008

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List of asteroids in the 2/1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter Read more __________________

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Date: Jul 5 16:23 2007

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Title: Dynamics of Jupiter Trojans during the 2:1 mean motion resonance crossing of Jupiter and Saturn Authors: F. Marzari (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy), H. Scholl (Obs. de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France) We study the dynamics of Jupiter Trojans in the early phase of the Solar system while the outer planets migrated due to their interaction with the planetesimal disk. Read more (784kb, PDF) __________________

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Date: Jun 5 08:20 2007

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Title: Fraction of Contact Binary Trojan Asteroids Authors: Rita K. Mann, David Jewitt, Pedro Lacerda We present the results of an optical lightcurve survey of 114 Jovian Trojan asteroids conducted to determine the fraction of contact binaries. Sparse-sampling was used to assess the photometric range of the asteroids and those showing the largest ranges were targeted for detailed follow-up observations. This survey led to the discovery of two Trojan asteroids, (17365) and (29314) displaying large lightcurve ranges (~1 magnitude) and long rotation periods (< 2 rotations per day consistent with a contact binary nature. The optical lightcurves of both asteroids are well matched by Roche binary equilibrium models. Using these binary models, we find low densities of ~600 kg/m^3 and 800 kg/m³, suggestive of porous interiors. The fraction of contact binaries is estimated to be between 6% and 10%, comparable to the fraction in the Kuiper Belt. The total binary fraction in the Trojan clouds (including both wide and close pairs) must be higher. Read more (882kb, PDF) __________________

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Date: Mar 2 12:10 2007

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Title: The Properties of Jovian Trojan Asteroids Listed in SDSS Moving Object Catalogue 3 Authors: Gy. M. Szabo, Z. Ivezic, M. Juric, R. Lupton We analyse 1187 observations of about 860 unique candidate Jovian Trojan asteroids listed in the 3rd release of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Moving Object Catalogue. The sample is complete at the faint end to r=21.2 mag (apparent brightness) and H=13.8 (absolute brightness, approximately corresponding to 10 km diameter). A subset of 297 detections of previously known Trojans were used to design and optimise a selection method based on observed angular velocity that resulted in the remaining objects. Using a sample of objects with known orbits, we estimate that the candidate sample contamination is about 3%. The well-controlled selection effects, the sample size, depth and accurate five-band UV-IR photometry enabled several new findings and the placement of older results on a firmer statistical footing. We find that there are significantly more asteroids in the leading swarm (L4) than in the trailing swarm (L5): N(L4)/N(L5)=1.6±0.1, independently of limiting object's size. The overall counts normalization suggests that there are about as many Jovians Trojans as there are main-belt asteroids down to the same size limit, in agreement with earlier estimates. We find that Trojan asteroids have a remarkably narrow colour distribution (root-mean-scatter of only ~0.05 mag) that is significantly different from the colour distribution of the main-belt asteroids. The colour of Trojan asteroids is correlated with their orbital inclination, in a similar way for both swarms, but appears uncorrelated with the object's size. We extrapolate the results presented here and estimate that Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will determine orbits, accurate colours and measure light curves in six photometric bandpasses for about 100,000 Jovian Trojan asteroids. Read more (2560kb, PDF) __________________

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