Bibcode
de León, Julia; Licandro, Javier; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemí
Referencia bibliográfica
Handbook of Exoplanets, ISBN 978-3-319-55332-0. Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature, 2018, id.55
Fecha de publicación:
2018
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0
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Descripción
Small bodies are rocky and/or icy objects, usually ranging in size from
a few meters to a few hundreds of kilometers. They comprise near-Earth
and main belt asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, trans-Neptunian objects,
Centaurs, comets, and a recently discovered category called the
transitional objects. Their physical nature, distribution, formation,
and evolution are fundamental to understand how the solar system formed
and evolved and, ultimately, how planetary systems are formed in other
stars. The number of discoveries regarding exoplanets and debris disks
is continuously increasing, and therefore it is crucial to first
understand our own solar system's provenance and evolution in order to
better interpret what is going on in newly discovered planetary systems.
In this chapter we review the main physical and compositional properties
of the different populations of small bodies of the solar system.
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