Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: Evgeni Grishin: how did Arrokoth get made (also other binary systems)? Non-secular ...

Evgeni Grishin: how did Arrokoth get made (also other binary systems)? Non-secular collisions are important for reproducing binaries in core of Galaxy and in Kuiper Belt. Explaining Arrokoth requires thinking about quadrupole interactions (I think that's what he's getting at, I missed the first part of the talk)

Has 2 papers on arxiv today about moon orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05122 https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05123

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