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(Submitted on 23 Jul 2015)
Abstract: Asteroids and comets are remnants from the era about Solar System formation over 4.5 billion years ago, and therefore allow us to address two fundamental questions in astronomy: what was the world about our protoplanetary disk, and how did the process about planetary accretion occur? The objects we see today have suffered various geophysically-relevant processes in the intervening eons that have altered their surfaces, interiors, and compositions. In this chapter we review our understanding about the origins and evolution about these bodies, discuss the wealth about body of knowledge returned from spacecraft missions, and motivate important questions to be addressed in the future.
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From: Yanga Fernandez []
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Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:30:16 UTC (6,797 KB)
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