The steady state population of Earth's minimoons of lunar provenance

2025/04/24 by Robert Jedicke, Elisa Maria Alessi, Jedicke, Robert +10 · 2 voices
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) #FOS: Physical sciences #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life #astro-ph.EP

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.17985

openalex publication_date 2025/04/24 · arxiv published 2025/04/24 · arxiv updated 2025/04/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This work examines the plausibility of a lunar origin of natural objects that have a negative total energy (ET) with respect to the geocenter while within 3 Earth Hill radii (RH), a population that we will refer to as 'bound'. They are a super-set of the population of 'minimoons' which require that the object make at least one orbit around Earth in a synodic frame rotating with Earth and that its geocentric distance be

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