Advances in the discovery and characterization of asteroids over the past decade have
revealed an unanticipated underlying structure that points to a dramatic early history of the …

Abstract The Yarkovsky and YORP (Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack) effects are
thermal radiation forces and torques that cause small objects to undergo semimajor axis drift …

The asteroid impact near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013 was the
largest airburst on Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event, causing a natural disaster in an …

Strongly correlated quantum systems are among the most intriguing and fundamental
systems in physics. One such example is the Tonks–Girardeau gas,, proposed about 40 …

The orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of the near-Earth objects (NEOs) is difficult
to compute, partly because only a modest fraction of the entire NEO population has been …

The Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack (YORP) effect may spin up or spin down 5-
km-radius asteroids on a 108-year timescale. Smaller asteroids spin up or down even faster …

By introducing artificial defects and/or light-emitters into photonic bandgap structures,, it
should be possible to manipulate photons. For example, it has been predicted that strong …

This article presents a method to adapt the lunar production function, ie the frequency of
impacts with a given size of a formed crater as discussed by Neukum et al.(2001), to Mars …

The results of 16 new 3D N-body simulations of the final stage of the formation of the
terrestrial planets are presented. These N-body integrations begin with 150–160 lunar-to …

Asteroid shapes and hydration levels can serve as tracers of their history and origin. For
instance, the asteroids (162173) Ryugu and (101955) Bennu have an oblate spheroidal …