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Active Asteroids: Main-Belt Comets and Disrupted Asteroids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2016

Henry H. Hsieh*
Affiliation:
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics 11F, Astronomy-Mathematics Building, National Taiwan UniversityNo.1, Sec.4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan email: hhsieh@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw Planetary Science Institute1700 East Fort Lowell Road, Suite 106 Tucson, Arizona 85719, United States of America email: hhsieh@psi.edu
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The study of active asteroids has attracted a great deal of interest in recent years since the recognition of main-belt comets (which orbit in the main asteroid belt, but exhibit comet-like activity due to the sublimation of volatile ices) as a new class of comets in 2006, and the discovery of the first disrupted asteroids (which, unlike MBCs, exhibit comet-like activity due to a physical disruption such as an impact or rotational destabilization, not sublimation) in 2010. In this paper, I will briefly discuss key areas of interest in the study of active asteroids.

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