期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 714, 期 2, 页码 1789-1799出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/714/2/1789
关键词
Kuiper Belt objects: individual (Haumea); methods: numerical
资金
- Harvard FAS Research Computing Group
- STFC
- NASA [NNX09AP27G]
- NASA [109394, NNX09AP27G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/D004012/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [PP/D004012/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Haumea, a rapidly rotating elongated dwarf planet (similar to 1500 km in diameter), has two satellites and is associated with a family of several smaller Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) in similar orbits. All members of the Haumea system share a water ice spectral feature that is distinct from all other KBOs. The relative velocities between the Haumea family members are too small to have formed by catastrophic disruption of a large precursor body, which is the process that formed families around much smaller asteroids in the main belt. Here, we show that all of the unusual characteristics of the Haumea system are explained by a novel type of giant collision: a graze and merge impact between two comparably sized bodies. The grazing encounter imparted the high angular momentum that spun off fragments from the icy crust of the elongated merged body. The fragments became satellites and family members. Giant collision outcomes are extremely sensitive to the impact parameters. Compared to the main belt, the largest bodies in the Kuiper Belt are more massive and experience slower velocity collisions; hence, outcomes of giant collisions are dramatically different between the inner and outer solar system. The dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt record an unexpectedly large number of giant collisions, requiring a special dynamical event at the end of solar system formation.
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