Mutual Orbits, Bulk Densities, Formation and Evolution of Multiple Visualized Main-Belt Asteroids
Résumé
The advent of high angular resolution imaging, provided by high angular resolution instruments such as Adaptive Optics (AO) or Hubble Space Telescope, permitted the visual discovery of more than fifty multiple asteroid systems over the last twelve years, including two triple main-belt asteroid systems, 45 Eugenia and 87 Sylvia, discovered by our team.