This work examines the plausibility of a lunar origin of natural objects that have a negative total energy with respect to the geocenter, i.e. ET=potential＋ kinetic energy<0, while they are within 3 Earth Hill radii (RH), a population that we will refer to as ‘bound’. They are a super-set of the informally named population of ‘minimoons’ which require that the object make at least one orbit around Earth in a synodic frame rotating with Earth and that its geocentric distance be
The steady state population of Earth's minimoons of lunar provenance
Alessi E. M.
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2025
Abstract
This work examines the plausibility of a lunar origin of natural objects that have a negative total energy with respect to the geocenter, i.e. ET=potential＋ kinetic energy<0, while they are within 3 Earth Hill radii (RH), a population that we will refer to as ‘bound’. They are a super-set of the informally named population of ‘minimoons’ which require that the object make at least one orbit around Earth in a synodic frame rotating with Earth and that its geocentric distance beFile in questo prodotto:
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