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Derek C. Richardson
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 270
Citations - 10082
Derek C. Richardson is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asteroid & Planetesimal. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 255 publications receiving 8665 citations. Previous affiliations of Derek C. Richardson include California Institute of Technology & University of Washington.
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Orbital migration of the planetary companion of 51 Pegasi to its present location
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that if the companion is indeed a gas-giant planet, it is extremely unlikely to have formed at its present location, and suggest instead that the planet probably formed by gradual accretion of solids and capture of gas at a much larger distance from the star (∼5 AU), and that it subsequently migrated inwards through interactions with the remnants of the circumstellar disk.
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Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids
TL;DR: Walsh et al. as mentioned in this paper used the thermal YORP (Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-i-Paddack) effect to model the formation of asteroids with satellites.
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Collisions and gravitational reaccumulation: forming asteroid families and satellites.
TL;DR: Results indicate that all large family members must be made of gravitationally reaccumulated fragments; that the post-collision member size distribution and the orbital dispersion are steeper and smaller, respectively, than for the evolved families observed today.
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Direct Large-Scale N-Body Simulations of Planetesimal Dynamics
TL;DR: In this article, a new direct numerical method for simulating planetesimal dynamics in which N ∼10 6 or more bodies can be evolved simultaneously in three spatial dimensions over hundreds of dynamical times is described.
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Formation of kuiper belt binaries by gravitational collapse
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the possibility that Kuiper Belt (KB) binaries formed during gravitational collapse when the excess of angular momentum prevented the agglomeration of available mass into a solitary object.