2019/10/14 by Mohammad Reza Shafizadeh, Shafizadeh, Mohammad Reza, Mohammad Reza Shahjahan +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Planetary Science and Exploration #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.05968
Asteroids are classified as tiny and light objects in the solar system, however some of them possess orbiting moons. According to surveys, 15% of near-earth asteroids have moons. The Electrical Discharge effect provides a new model that describes the formation of single, binary, and triple asteroids influenced by solar magnetic activity. In further studies, collected data was drawn from the aggregation diagram of asteroids based on their average distance from the sun according to various databases, catalogs and spacecraft. The results show that, in areas where solar magnetic activity is high, the binary asteroids are more aggregated. Then, according to results searching catalogs asteroids for shape, spin, and type of orbit, this paper introduces a list of asteroids which, may be transformed from single asteroids to binary (and possibly multiple asteroids) depending on a future increase of solar magnetic activity.