TY - JOUR
AB - NEWS LIbRARY NEWS Asteroid pair develops dusty tails Recent additions and donations ASTEROIDS An asteroid from the Main to the RAS Library include: Belt has split and now both fragments ● Sobel D 2017 The display dust tails, like comets. Asteroids Glass Universe: the rarely display dust tails; their orbits in Hidden History of the the Main Belt are usually close to cir- Women Who Took the cular so they do not undergo the tem- Measure of the perature changes that could destabilize Stars (Fourth Estate, any ice on their surfaces and lead to London). comet activity. Asteroid P/2016 J1 was ● Taylor F W 2016 discovered to be a dual object in 2016. Exploring the Planets: And now both fragments have been Islands and the Canada–France–Hawaii appears to have started within the past a Memoir (Oxford found to have dust tails. The figure Telescope to study P/2016 J1 A and B year; both fragmentation and the start University Press) shows that each fragment has a central (pictured), said that it is the youngest of activity correspond to perihelion, on donated by the bright region and a diffuse tail. asteroid pair in the solar system. “The successive orbits. Moreno suggests that author. Fernando Moreno, 
TI - Find your own extrasolar planet
JF - Astronomy & Geophysics
DO - 10.1093/astrogeo/atx046
DA - 2017-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/find-your-own-extrasolar-planet-wMJSZjSeUB
SP - 2.7
EP - 2.7
VL - 58
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -