Timeline for Closest stable orbit about the sun of an asteroid?
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| Dec 13, 2020 at 5:05 | comment | added | Connor Garcia♦ | what about roche boundaries? | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 22:55 | comment | added | James K | I'll include that, The unstated aspect of the question is "stable on what timeframe" There is a great difference between being stable of 10 years and being stable over 10 million years. | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 22:55 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2020 at 22:40 | comment | added | user24157 | Gravitational effects are not the only consideration for stability. E.g. the Yarkovsky effect will tend to deplete the vulcanoid region (Vokrouhlický et al. 2000), YORP effect can spin up asteroids to breakup velocity, radiation pressure removes dust... | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 22:02 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |