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    Ye Olde Electric Asteroids
    Ye Olde Electric Asteroids
    Ye Olde Electric Asteroids
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    Ye Olde Electric Asteroids

    By Dirk Bontes

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    There is a plethora of asteroids and comets in our solar system: Apollo's, Amors, Hilda's, Hungarians, Main Belt asteroids, Trojans, Cybeles. There are asteroid 'families' and there are interloping comets. The asteroids appear have been sorted. This article / E-book proposes that the shapes and orbital parameters of asteroids and comets are affected by electric currents and magnetic fields and that these provide the sorting mechanism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDirk Bontes
    Release dateJul 20, 2015
    ISBN9781311449184
    Ye Olde Electric Asteroids
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    Dirk Bontes

    Won some short story contests. Runs another. All Scifi / Fantasy / Horror. Has written some uncompleted science books. Has translated and interpreted Aeneid VI: Aeneid Liber Sextus.

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      Ye Olde Electric Asteroids - Dirk Bontes

      Ye Olde Electric Asteroids

      Photograph cover: © ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

      Cover design: Anaïd Haen

      Published by Dirk Bontes at Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 Dirk Bontes

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      Contents

      1. Introduction

      2. The Main Belt and its Kirkwood gaps, and nearby other asteroid groups

      3. The reddish-bluish groupings of large size asteroids

      4. The orbital parameters of the asteroids; especially their prograde or retrograde rotation

      5. The peculiar shape of some asteroids and comets

      6. The high albedo – low albedo distribution

      7. Near circular, and inclined orbits

      8. Asteroid families

      9. Asteroid spin clusters

      10. Hilda asteroid migrations

      11. References

      12. About the author

      13. Other titles by Dirk Bontes

      14. Contact

      Chapter 1. Introduction

      Updates of this E-book may be downloaded for free by buyers of earlier versions of this E-book.

      This article proposes that the shape and orbital parameters of asteroids and comets are to a large degree determined by electric currents and by the magnetic field of the Sun.

      I do note that Pluto's moon Hydra, not discussed here, appears to be an asteroid. Neither are Mars' asteroid moons Phobos and Deimos discussed.

      This article / E-book was inspired by a BBC documentary about the Asteroid Belt. As I was watching this documentary, I realised that the observed phenomena could be explained perfectly by applying the electricity principles I had earlier used in my self-published book Making Sense Of Astronomy & Geology (2000, and earlier editions) to explain the shapes and orbital parameters and the magnetic fields of stars, planets and moons.

      This article / E-book was quickly written. I encountered a couple of problems, but I am satisfied that I solved them.

      What I do is conceptual science. I make sense of observed phenomena, of information that I have been provided with. I show and guide the way. Am I right? I believe I nearly always am. Conceptual science, though, is only one of the steps in the process of determining scientific truth. I leave the other steps to those people who are better able to perform them than I am.

      There are many quotes in this article / E-book, for we need to be presented with the background information and the problems we will be discussing. After presenting this information, we will present the solutions to these problems.

      Chapter 2. The Main Belt and its Kirkwood gaps, and nearby other asteroid groups

      Wikipedia: The first fifteen asteroids to be discovered were given symbols by astronomers as a type of shorthand notation. In 1851, however, Johann Franz Encke suggested using a circled number (1).

      The (Main) Asteroid Belt or Main Belt is the region between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter where most of the asteroids that are present in the inner solar system, have their orbit. The inner edge of the Main Belt is at 2.1 Astronomical Units from the Sun (1 AU is the average distance from the Sun to the Earth). The outer edge of the Main Belt is at 3.3 AU from the Sun. The Main Belt consists of an Inner, a Mid and an Outer region, which are separated by instability (Kirkwood) gaps. Besides and near the Main Belt there are also other groups of asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

      There are millions, maybe even – down to the smallest size – billions or trillions of asteroids in the Main Belt. Hundreds of thousands of asteroids are currently known and have known orbits.

      The total mass of the Main Belt is about four per cent of the mass of the Moon (2). The three protoplanets (1) Ceres (3), (4) Vesta (4) and (2) Pallas (5), and the (10) asteroid Hygeia (6) together have about half of all of the mass in the Main Belt (7-9). Ceres (3) has a diameter of circa 950 kilometers and is the largest of the four; it accounts for one third of all of the mass in the Main Belt (8,9). The other three have diameters that are larger than 400 kilometers. Over two hundred asteroids are larger than one hundred kilometers in diameter (10). There are between 0.7 and 1.7

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