Distribution Of Asteroids Within The Solar System Including Asteroid Belt, Trojan Asteroids, And Near-earth Asteroids

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Various dynamical groups of asteroids have been discovered orbiting in the inner Solar System. The majority of known aster... Read more

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Various dynamical groups of asteroids have been discovered orbiting in the inner Solar System. The majority of known asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, generally in relatively low-eccentricity orbits. Trojan asteroids are a population that share an orbit with a larger planet or moon, but do not collide with it because they orbit in one of the two Lagrangian points of stability. Near-Earth asteroids, or NEA's, are asteroids that have orbits that pass close to that of Earth. This book studies the distribution of asteroids including main-belt comet, Jupiter Trojan, Lagrangian point, and Aten asteroid. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. Less