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Models of angular momentum input to a circumterrestrial swarm from encounters with heliocentric planetesimalsPreliminary experiments show that heliocentric planetesimals passing through the Earth environment possess significant angular momentum. However it also appears that these same planetesimals impacting a circularized circumterrestrial planetesimal swarm would likely remove angular momentum (though possibly increasing mean kinetic energy), presumably promoting both swarm infall upon the Earth and escape to heliocentric space. Only a distribution of highly eccentric satellite orbits with mean tangential velocities of a few tens of percent of local circular velocity would be immune against angular momentum loss to passing heliocentric planetesimals.
Document ID
19850005441
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Herbert, F.
(Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Davis, D. R.
(Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1984
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar Planetary Inst. Conf. on the Origin of the Moon
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
85N13750
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASW-3516
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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