William Bottke: Reprints and Curriculum Vitae

Dr. William F. Bottke

Southwest Research Institute

1050 Walnut St, Suite 300

Boulder, CO 80302

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A brief curriculum vitae is located at the bottom of this website.

Recent Papers of Particular Interest

Marchi, S., W. F. Bottke, B. A. Cohen, K. Wünnemann, D. A. Kring, H. Y. McSween, M. C. De Sanctis, D. P. O’Brien, P. Schenk, C. A. Raymond, and C. T. Russell. 2013. High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites. Nature Geosciences 6, 303-307. Click for PDF. Click for PDF of Supplemental Material.
Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlický, D. Nesvorný, J. M. Moore. 2013. Black rain: The burial of the Galilean satellites in irregular satellite debris. Icarus 223, 775-795. Click for PDF

Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlický, D. Minton, D. Nesvorný, A. Morbidelli, R. Brasser, B. Simonson, and H. F. Levison. 2012. An Archean Heavy Bombardment From a Destabilized Extension of the Asteroid Belt. Nature 485, 78-81. Click for PDF. Click for PDF of Supplemental Material.

Marchi, S., W. F. Bottke, A. Morbidelli, and D. Kring. 2012. The onset of the lunar cataclysm as recorded in its ancient crater populations. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 325-326, 27-38. Click for PDF. Click for PDF of Supplemental Material.

Morbidelli, A., S. Marchi, W. F. Bottke, and D. Kring. 2012. A sawtooth-like timeline for the first billion years of lunar bombardment. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 355-356, 144-151. Click for PDF.

2013

Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlický, D. Nesvorný, J. M. Moore. 2013. Black rain: The burial of the Galilean satellites in irregular satellite debris. Icarus 223, 775-795. Click for PDF

Marchi, S., W. F. Bottke, B. A. Cohen, K. Wünnemann, D. A. Kring, H. Y. McSween, M. C. De Sanctis, D. P. O’Brien, P. Schenk, C. A. Raymond, and C. T. Russell. 2013. High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites. Nature Geosciences 6, 303-307. Click for PDF. Click for PDF of Supplemental Material.

Broz, M., A. Morbidelli, W. F. Bottke, J. Rozehnal, D. Vokrouhlický, D. Nesvorný. 2013. Constraining the cometary flux through the asteroid belt during the late heavy bombardment. Astron. Astrophys. 551, A117. Click for PDF

Walsh, K. J., M. Delbo, W. F. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlický, D. S. Lauretta. 2013. Introducing the Eulalia and new Polana asteroid families: re-assessing primitive asteroid families in the inner Main Belt. Icarus 225, 283-297. Click for PDF

Kirchoff, M. R., C. R. Chapman, S. Marchi, K. M. Curtis, B. Enke, W. F. Bottke. 2013. Ages of large lunar impact craters and implications for bombardment . Icarus 225, 325-341. Click for PDF
Robbins, S. J., B. M. Hynek, R. J. Lillis, W. F. Bottke. 2013. Large impact crater histories of Mars: The effect of different model crater age techniques . Icarus 225, 173-184. Click for PDF

Farnocchia, D., D. Vokrouhlický, A. Milani, F. Spoto, W. F. Bottke. 2013. Near Earth Asteroids with measurable Yarkovsky effect. Icarus 224, 1-13. Click for PDF
Dunn, T. L., Burbine, T. H., Bottke, W. F., Clark, J. P. 2013. Mineralogies and source regions of near-Earth asteroids. Icarus 222, 273-282. Click for PDF

2012

Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlický, D. Minton, D. Nesvorný, A. Morbidelli, R. Brasser, B. Simonson, and H. F. Levison. 2012. An Archean Heavy Bombardment From a Destabilized Extension of the Asteroid Belt. Nature 485, 78-81. Click for PDF. Click for PDF of Supplemental Material.

Morbidelli, A., S. Marchi, W. F. Bottke, and D. Kring. 2012. A sawtooth-like timeline for the first billion years of lunar bombardment. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 355-356, 144-151. Click for PDF.

Vokrouhlicky, D. and W. F. Bottke. 2012. Yarkovsky and YORP effects. Scholarpedia, 7(5):10599. Click to go to website.
Benavidez, P. G., D. D. Durda, B. L. Enke, W. F. Bottke, David Nesvorny, D. C. Richardson, E. Asphaug, W. J. Merline. 2012. A comparison between rubble-pile and monolithic targets in impact simulations: Application to asteroid satellites and family size distributions. Icarus 219, 57-76. Click for PDF

Reddy, V., and 24 colleagues 2012. Delivery of dark material to Vesta via carbonaceous chondritic impacts. Icarus 221, 544-559. Click for PDF

Marchi, S., W. F. Bottke, A. Morbidelli, and D. Kring. 2012. The onset of the lunar cataclysm as recorded in its ancient crater populations. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 325-326, 27-38. Click for PDF. Click for PDF of Supplemental Material.

2011

Nesvorný, D., D. Janches, D. Vokrouhlický, P. Pokorný, W. F. Bottke, and P Jenniskens. 2011. Dynamical Model for the Zodiacal Cloud and Sporadic Meteors. Astrophysical J. 743, 129 (16 pages). Click for PDF.

Scott, E. R. D., and W. F. Bottke. 2011. Impact histories of angrites, eucrites, and their parent bodies. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 46, 1878-1887. Click for PDF.
Broz, M., D. Vokrouhlický, A. Morbidelli, D. Nesvorný, and W. F. Bottke. 2011. Did the Hilda collisional family form during the late heavy bombardment? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 414, 2716-2727. Click for PDF.
Nesvorný, D., D. Vokrouhlický, W. F. Bottke, K. Noll, H. F. Levison. 2011. Observed Binary Fraction Sets Limits on the Extent of Collisional Grinding in the Kuiper Belt. Astron. J. 141, 159 (11 pages). Click for PDF.
Harris, A. W., and 16 colleagues. 201. ExploreNEOs. II. The Accuracy of the Warm Spitzer Near-Earth Object Survey. Astron. J. 141, 75 (10 pages). Click for PDF.
Mueller, M., and 16 colleagues. 2011. ExploreNEOs. III. Physical Characterization of 65 Potential Spacecraft Target Asteroids. Astron. J. 141, 109 (9 pages). Click for PDF.
Thomas, C. A., and 18 colleagues. 2011. ExploreNEOs. V. Average Albedo by Taxonomic Complex in the Near-Earth Asteroid Population. Astron. J. 142, 85 (12 pages). Click for PDF.

2010

Bottke, W. F., R. J. Walker, J. M. D. Day, D. Nesvorný, L. Elkins-Tanton. 2010. Stochastic Late Accretion to Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Science 330, 1527-1530. Click for PDF.
Bottke, W. F., D. Nesvorný , D. Vokrouhlický, and A. Morbidelli. 2010. The irregular satellites. The most collisionally evolved population in the solar system. Astrophys. J. 139, 994-1014. Click for PDF.

Jenniskens, P., and 15 colleagues 2010. Almahata Sitta (asteroid 2008 TC3) and the search for the ureilite parent body. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 45, 1590-1617. Click for PDF.
Nesvorný, D., W. F. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlický, C. R. Chapman, S. Rafkin. 2010. Do planetary encounters reset surfaces of near Earth asteroids? Icarus 209, 510-519. Click for PDF.
Trilling, D. E., and 15 colleagues 2010. ExploreNEOs. I. Description and First Results from the Warm Spitzer Near-Earth Object Survey. Astron. J. 140, 770-784. Click for PDF.
Moldovan, R., J. M. Matthews, B. Gladman, W. F. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlický. 2010. Searching for Trojan Asteroids in the HD 209458 System: Space-based MOST Photometry and Dynamical Modeling. Astrophys. J. 716, 315-323. Click for PDF.
Nesvorný, D., P. Jenniskens, H. F. Levison, W. F. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlický, and M. Gounelle. 2010. Cometary origin of the Zodiacal Cloud and carbonaceous micrometeorites. Implications for hot debris disks. Astrophys. J., 713, 816-836. Click for PDF.

Shapiro, I. and the Committee to Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies. 2010. Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies. Final Report. National Research Council. National Academies Press. Click for PDF.
Cuzzi, J., R. C. Hogan, and W. F. Bottke. 2010. Towards Initial Mass Functions for Asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects. Icarus 208, 518-538. Click for PDF.
Vokrouhlický, D., D. Nesvorný, W. F. Bottke, and A. Morbidelli. 2010. Collisional-born family around (87) Sylvia. Astrophys. J. 139, 2148-2158. Click for PDF.

2009

Morbidelli, A., W. F. Bottke, D. Nesvorný, and H. Levison. 2009. Asteroids were born big. Icarus 204, 558-573. Click for PDF.
Warner, B. D., Harris, A. W., Vokrouhlický, D., Nesvorný, D., W. F. Bottke. 2009. Analysis of the Hungaria asteroid population. Icarus 204, 172-182. Click for PDF.
Bland, P.A., P. Spurn $y$ , M. C. Towner, A. W. R. Bevan,A. T. Singleton, W. F. Bottke, Jr.,R. C. Greenwood,S. R. Chesley,L. Shrbeny,J. Borovicka, Z. Ceplecha, T. P. McClafferty,D. Vaughan,G. K. Benedix,G. Deacon,K. T. Howard,I. A. Franchi,R. M. Hough 2009. An Anomalous Basaltic Meteorite from the Innermost Main Belt. Science 325, 1525-1527. Click for PDF.
Levison, H. F., W. F. Bottke, M. Gounelle, A. Morbidelli, D. Nesvorný, and K. Tsiganis. 2009. Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects. Nature, 460, 364-366. Click for PDF.

Rubin, A. E., and W. F. Bottke. 2009. On the origin of shocked and unshocked CM clasts in H-chondrite regolith breccias. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 44, 701-724. Click for PDF.

Reddy, V, J. P. Emery, M. J. Gaffey, W. F. Bottke, A. Cramer, and M. S. Kelley. 2010. Composition of (298) Baptistina: Implications for the K/T Link. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 44, 1917-1927. Click for PDF.

Morbidelli, A., H. F. Levison, W. F. Bottke, L. Dones, and D. Nesvorný. 2009. Considerations on the magnitude distributions of the Kuiper belt and of the Jupiter Trojans. Icarus 202, 310-315. Click for PDF.
Nesvorný, D., D. Vokrouhlický, D., A. Morbidelli, W. F. Bottke. 2009. Asteroidal source of L chondrite meteorites. Icarus 200, 698-701. Click for PDF.

2008

Levison, H. F., A. Morbidelli, D. Vokrouhlický, and W. F. Bottke. 2008. On a scattered-disk origin for the 2003 EL61 Collisional Family- An example of the importance of collisions on the dynamics of small bodies. Astron. J. 136, 1079-1088. Click for PDF.
Nesvorný, D., W. F. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlický, M. Sykes, D. J. Lien, and J. Stansberry. 2008. Origin of the Near-Ecliptic Circumsolar Dust Band. Astrophys. J. 679, L143-L146. Click for PDF.
Bottke, W. F. 2008. How to make a flying saucer. Nature 454, 173-174. Click for PDF.
Vokrouhlický, D., D. Nesvorný, and W. F. Bottke. 2008. Evolution of dust trails into bands. Astrophys. J. 672, 696-712. Click for PDF.

Burbine, T. H., A. S. Rivkin, S. K. Noble, T. Mothe-Diniz, W. F. Bottke, T. J. McCoy, M. D. Dyar, and C. A. Thomas. 2007. Oxygen and Asteroids. In Oxygen in the Solar System (Eds. G. J. MacPherson, D. W. Mittlefehldt, J. H. Jones, and S. B. Simon). Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 68, 273-331. Click for PDF.

2007

Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlický, and D. Nesvorný. 2007. An asteroid breakup 160 My ago as the probable source of the K-T impactor. Nature 449, 48-53. Click for PDF of article. Click for PDF of Supplemental Material.

Bottke, W. F., H. F. Levison, D. Nesvorný, and L. Dones. 2007. Can planetesimals leftover from terrestrial planet formation produce the lunar Late Heavy Bombardment? Icarus 190, 203-223. Click for PDF.
O’Brien, D., A. Morbidelli, and W. F. Bottke. 2007. The primordial excitation and clearing of the asteroid belt-revisited. Icarus, in press. Click for PDF.
Vokrouhlicky, D., S. Breiter, D. Nesvorny, and W. F. Bottke. 2007. Generalized YORP evolution. Onset of tumbling and new asymptotic states. Icarus 191, 636-650. Click for PDF.

Vokrouhlicky, D., D. Nesvorny, L. Dones, and W. F. Bottke. 2007. Thermal forces on planetary ring particles: Application to the main system of Saturn. Astron. Astrophys. 471, 717-730. Click for PDF.

Nesvorny, D., D. Vokrouhlicky, W. F. Bottke, B. Gladman, and T. Haggstrom. 2007. Express delivery of fossil meteorites from the inner asteroid belt to Sweden. Icarus 188, 400-413. Click for PDF.

Bottke, W. F. 2007. Asteroids: Spun in the sun (News and Views). Nature 446, 382-383. Click for PDF.

Durda, D., W. F. Bottke, D. Nesvorny, B. Encke, W.J. Merline, E. Asphaug, and D. C. Richardson. 2007. Size-Frequency Distributions of Fragments from SPH/N-Body Simulations of Asteroid Impacts. Comparison with Observed Asteroid Families. Icarus 186, 498-516. Click for PDF.
Bottke, W. F. 2007. Understanding the Near-Earth Object Population: The 2004 Perspective. In Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society, International Council for Science Publication. Click for PDF.

2006

Nesvorny, D., M. Sykes, D. J. Lien, J. Stansberry, W. T. Reach, D. Vokrouhlicky, W. F. Bottke, D. D. Durda, S. Jayaraman, R. G. Walker. 2006. Candidates for Asteroid Dust Trails. Astron. J. 132, 582-595. Click for PDF of article.
Nesvorny, D., B. L. Enke, W. F. Bottke, D. D. Durda, E. Asphaug, and D. C. Richardson. 2006. Karin cluster formation by asteroid impact. Icarus 183, 296-311. Click for PDF of article.
Vokrouhlicky, D., M. Broz, W. F. Bottke, D. Nesvorny, A. Morbidelli. 2006. The peculiar case of the Agnia family. Icarus 183, 349-361. Click for PDF of article.

Bottke, W.F., D. Vokrouhlicky, D. P. Rubincam, and D. Nesvorny. 2006. The Yarkovsky and YORP Effects: Implications for asteroid dynamics. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 34, 157-191. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W. F., D. Nesvorný, R. E. Grimm, A. Morbidelli, and D. P. O'Brien. 2006. Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region. Nature 439, 821-824. Click for PDF of article and supplemental materials.
Vokrouhlicky, D., D. Nesvorny, W. F. Bottke. 2006. Secular spin dynamics of inner main belt asteroids. Icarus 184, 1-28. Click for PDF of article.
Nesvorny, D., D. Vokrouhlicky, W. F. Bottke. 2006. The breakup of a main belt asteroid 450 thousand years ago. Science 312, 1490. Click for PDF of article.
Morbidelli, A., Gounelle, M., Levison, H. F., Bottke, W. F. 2006. Formation of the binary near-Earth object 1996 FG3: Can binary NEOs be the source of short-CRE meteorites? Meteoritics and Planetary Science 41, 875-887. Click for PDF of article.
Vokrouhlicky, D., Broz, M., Bottke, W. F., Nesvorny, D., Morbidelli, A. 2006. Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families. Icarus 182, 118-142. Click for PDF of article.
Vokrouhlicky, D., Broz, M., Morbidelli, A., Bottke, W. F., Nesvorny, D., Lazzaro, D., Rivkin, A. S. 2006. Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family. Icarus 182, 92-117. Click for PDF of article.
Nesvorny, D., Vokrouhlicky, D., Bottke, W. F., Sykes, M. 2006. Physical properties of asteroid dust bands and their sources. Icarus 181, 107-144. Click for PDF of article.
Farley, K. A., Vokrouhlicky, D., Bottke, W. F., Nesvorny, D. 2006. A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt. Nature 439, 295-297. Click for PDF of article and supplemental materials.

2005

Bottke, W. F., Durda, D. D., Nesvorny, D., Jedicke, R., Morbidelli, A., Vokrouhlicky, D., Levison, H. F. 2005. Linking the collisional history of the main asteroid belt to its dynamical excitation and depletion. Icarus 179, 63-94. Click for PDF of article.
Broz, M., Vokrouhlicky, D., Roig, F., Nesvorny, D., Bottke, W. F., Morbidelli, A. 2005. Yarkovsky origin of the unstable asteroids in the 2/1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 359, 1437-1455. Click for PDF of article.
Vokrouhlicky, D., Bottke, W. F., Nesvorny, D. 2005. The spin state of 433 Eros and its possible implications. Icarus 175, 419-434. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W. F., Durda, D. D., Nesvorny, D., Jedicke, R., Morbidelli, A., Vokrouhlicky, D., Levison, H. 2005. The fossilized size distribution of the main asteroid belt. Icarus 175, 111-140. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W.F., D. Durda, D. Nesvorny, R. Jedicke, A. Morbidelli, D. Vokrouhlicky, and H. Levison. 2005. The origin and evolution of stony meteorites. In Dynamics of Populations of Planetary Systems (Z. Knezevic, A. Milani, Eds). IAU Colliquium 197, 357-374. Click for PDF of article.
Broz, M., D. Vokrouhlicky, F. Roig, D. Nesvorny, W.F Bottke, and A. Morbidelli. 2005. The population of asteroids in the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter revised. In Dynamics of Populations of Planetary Systems (Z. Knezevic, A. Milani, Eds). IAU Colliquium 197, 179-186.
Vokrouhlicky, D., M. Broz, W. F. Bottke, D. Nesvorny, and A. Morbidelli. 2005. Non-gravitational perturbations and evolution in the main belt. In Dynamics of Populations of Planetary Systems (Z. Knezevic, A. Milani, Eds). IAU Colliquium 197, 145-156.
Nesvorny, D., Bottke, W. F., Vokrouhlicky, D., Morbidelli, A.,Jedicke, R. 2005. Asteroid families. IAU Symposium 229, 289-299.

2004

Nesvorny, D. and W. F. Bottke. 2004. Direct detection of the Yarkovsky effect for main belt asteroids. Icarus 170, 324-342. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W.F.,. A. Morbidelli, and R. Jedicke. 2004. Recent progress in interpreting the nature of the near-Earth object population. In Mitigation of Hazardous Impacts Due to Asteroids and Comets (M. Belton, E. Asphaug, Eds). Cambridge U. Press, 1-21.
Durda, D. D, W. F. Bottke, B. L. Enke, E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, and Z. M. Leinhardt. 2004. The formation of asteroid satellites in catastrophic impacts: Results from numerical simulations. Icarus 167, 382-396. Click for PDF of article.

2003

Vokrouhlicky, D., D. Nesvorny, and W. F. Bottke. 2003. The vector alignments of asteroids spins by thermal torques. Nature 425, 147-151. Click for PDF of article.
Stokes, G., D. Yeomans, W.F. Bottke, S. Chesley, J. B. Evans, R. E. Gold, A. W. Harris, D. Jewitt, T.S. Kelso, R. McMillian, T. Spahr, S. P. Worden. 1003. A Study to Determine the Feasibility of Extending the Search for Near Earth Objects to Smaller Limiting Magnitudes. Report Prepared at the Request of NASA Headquarters Office of Space Science's Solar System Exploration Division. Click for PDF of article.
Cook, C., H. J. Melosh, and W. F. Bottke. 2003. Doublet craters on Venus. Icarus 165, 90-100. Click for PDF of article.
Nesvorny, D., W. F. Bottke, H. Levison, and L. Dones. 2003. Recent origin of the solar system dust bands. Astrophys. J. 591, 486-497. Click for PDF of article.
Morbidelli, A., D. Nesvorny, W. F. Bottke, P. Michel, D. Vokrouhlicky, and P. Tanga. 2003. The shallow magnitude distribution of asteroid families. Icarus, 162, 328-336. Click for PDF of article.
Carruba, V., J. A. Burns, W. F. Bottke, and D. Nesvorny. 2003. Orbital evolution of the Gefion and Adeona asteroid families: Close encounters with massive asteroids and the Yarkovsky effect. Icarus 162, 308-327. Click for PDF of article.
Stern, S. A., W. F. Bottke, H. L. Levison. 2003. Regarding the putative eccentricity of Charon's orbit. Astron. J. 125, 902-905. Click for PDF of article.
Jedicke, R., A. Morbidelli, T. Spahr, J.-M. Petit, and W. F. Bottke. 2003. Earth and space-based NEO survey simulations: Prospects for achieving the Spaceguard goal. Icarus 161, 17-33. Click for PDF of article.

2002

Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlick'y, D. Rubincam, and M. Broz. 2002. The effect of Yarkovsky thermal forces on the dynamical evolution of asteroids and meteoroids. In Asteroids III (W. F. Bottke, A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R. Binzel, Eds). U. Arizona Press, 395-408. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W. F., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, and R. Binzel. 2002. An overview of the asteroids: The Asteroids III perspective. In Asteroids III (W. F. Bottke, A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R. Binzel, Eds). U. Arizona Press, 3-15. Click for PDF of article.
Morbidelli, A., W. F. Bottke, Ch. Froeschle, and P. Michel. 2002. Origin and evolution of near-Earth objects. In Asteroids III, (W. F. Bottke, A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R. Binzel, Eds). U. Arizona Press, 409-422. Click for PDF of article.
Weissman, P. R., W. F. Bottke, and H. Levison. 2002. Evolution of comets into asteroids. In Asteroids III, (W. F. Bottke, A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R. Binzel, Eds). U. Arizona Press, 669-686. Click for PDF of article.
Richardson, D. C., Z. M. Leinhardt, H. J. Melosh, W. F. Bottke, and E. Asphaug. 2002. Gravitational aggregates: Evidence and evolution. In Asteroids III, (W. F. Bottke, A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R. Binzel, Eds). U. Arizona Press, 501-515. Click for PDF of article.
Ivanov, B. A., G. Neukum, W. F. Bottke, and W. K. Hartmann. 2002. The comparison of size-frequency distributions of impact craters and asteroids and the planetary cratering rate. In Asteroids III (W. F. Bottke, A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R. Binzel, Eds). U. Arizona Press, 89-101. Click for PDF of article.
Morbidelli, A., R. Jedicke, W. F. Bottke, P. Michel, E. F. Tedesco. 2002. From magnitudes to diameters: The albedo distribution of Near-Earth objects and the Earth collision hazard. Icarus 158, 329-342. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W. F., A. Morbidelli, R. Jedicke, J.-M. Petit, H. Levison, P. Michel, and T. S. Metcalfe. 2002. Debiased orbital and size distributions of the near-Earth objects. Icarus 156, 399-433. Click for PDF of article.
Nesvorny, D., W. F. Bottke, H. Levison, and L. Dones. 2002. A recent asteroid breakup in the main belt. Nature 417, 700-722. Click for PDF of article.
Levison, H., A. Morbidelli, L. Dones, R. Jedicke, P. A. Wiegert, and W. F. Bottke. 2002. The mass disruption of Oort cloud comets. Science 296, 2212-2215. Click for PDF of article.
Nesvorny, D., A. Morbidelli, D. Vokrouhlicky, W. F. Bottke, and M. Broz. 2002. The Flora family: A case of the dynamically dispersed collisional swarm? Icarus 157, 155-172. Click for PDF of article.

2001

Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlicky, M. Broz, D. Nesvorny and A. Morbidelli. 2001. Dynamical spreading of asteroid families via the Yarkovsky effect. Science 294, 1693-1696. Click for PDF of article.

Bottke, W. F., and R. Greenberg. 2001. The impact record on asteroid surfaces, In Collisional Processes in the Solar System (M.Y. Marov and H. Rickman, eds.), Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 51-71.

Vokrouhlicky, D., and W. F. Bottke. 2001. The Yarkovsky thermal force on small asteroids and their fragments: Choosing the right albedo. Astron. Astrophys., 371, 350-356.

2000

Bottke, W. F., R. Jedicke, A. Morbidelli, B. Gladman, and J.-M. Petit. 2000. Understanding the distribution of near-Earth objects. Science 288, 2190-2194. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W. F., D. F. Rubincam, and J. A. Burns. 2000. Dynamical evolution of main belt meteoroids: Numerical simulations incorporating planetary perturbations and Yarkovsky thermal forces. Icarus 145, 301-331. Click for PDF of article.
Vokrouhlicky, D., P. Farinella, and W. F. Bottke. 2000. The depletion of the putative Vulcanoid population via the Yarkovsky effect. Icarus 148, 147-152. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W. F., S. G. Love, D. Tytell, and T. Glotch. 2000. Interpreting the elliptical crater populations on Mars, Venus, and the Moon. Icarus 145, 108-121. Click for PDF of article.

1999

Bottke, W. F., D. C. Richardson, P. Michel, S. G. Love. 1999. 1620 Geographos and 433 Eros: Shaped by planetary tides? Astron. J., 117, 1921-1928. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W. F. Asteroids as rubble piles. 1999. In International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies - 23rd Session (Nuclear Strategy and Peace Technology series), World Scientific Press.
Black, G. J., P. D. Nicholson, W. F. Bottke, J. A. Burns. 1999. On a possible rotation state of 433 Eros. Icarus 140, 239-242.

1998

Bottke, W. F., D. C. Richardson, and S. G. Love. 1998. The production of Tunguska-sized impactors by planetary tidal forces. Planetary and Space Science 46, 311-322.
Richardson, D. C., W. F. Bottke, and S. G. Love. 1998 Tidal distortion and disruption of Earth-crossing asteroids. Icarus 134, 47-76. Click for PDF of article.

1997

Bottke, W. F., D. C. Richardson, S. G. Love. 1997. Can tidal disruption of asteroids make crater chains on the Earth and Moon? Icarus 126, 470-474. Click for PDF of article.
Bottke, W. F., R. Greenberg, A. Carusi, and G. B. Valsecchi. 1997. Mapping the effects of distant perturbations of particle-planet interactions. Icarus 125, 288-301.

1996

Bottke, W. F., and H. J. Melosh. 1996. The formation of asteroid satellites and doublet craters by planetary tidal forces. Nature 381, 51-53. Click for PDF of article

Bottke, W. F., and H. J. Melosh. 1996. Binary asteroids and the formation of doublet craters. Icarus 124, 372-391. Click for PDF of article.

Bottke, W. F., M. C. Nolan, H. J. Melosh, A. M. Vickery, and R. Greenberg. 1996. Origin of the Spacewatch small Earth-approaching asteroids. Icarus 122, 406-427. Click for PDF of article.
Greenberg, R., M. C. Nolan, W. F. Bottke, J.-M. Petit, P. Geissler, D. Durda. 1996. Collisional and dynamical history of Ida. Icarus 120, 106-118. Click for PDF of article
Geissler, P., J.-M. Petit, D. Durda, R. Greenberg, W. F. Bottke, M. C. Nolan, and J. Moore. 1996. Erosion and ejecta reaccretion on 243 Ida and its moon. Icarus 120, 140-157. Click for PDF of article
Bottke, W. F., M. C. Nolan, H. J. Melosh, A. M. Vickery, and R. Greenberg. 1996. Provenance of the Spacewatch small Earth-approaching asteroids. In Completing the Inventory of the Solar System (T. W. Rettig, J. M. Hahn, Eds.) ASP Conference Series, Vol. 107, 3-11.

1994

Bottke, W. F., M. C. Nolan, R. A. Kolvoord, and R. Greenberg. 1994. Velocity distribution among colliding asteroids. Icarus 107, 255-268. Click for PDF of article.
Greenberg, R., M. C. Nolan, W. F. Bottke, and R. A. Kolvoord. 1994. Collisional history of Gaspra. Icarus 107, 84-97. Click for PDF of article
Bottke, W. F., M. C. Nolan, R. Greenberg, and R. A. Kolvoord. 1994. Collisional lifetimes and impact statistics of near-Earth asteroids. In Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. (Eds. T. Gehrels, M. S. Matthews) Univeristy of Arizona Press, Tucson. pp. 337-357.

1993

Bottke, W. F. and R. Greenberg. 1993. Asteroidal collision probabilities. Geophys. Res. Letters, 20, 879-881.

1991

Greenberg, R., W. F. Bottke, G. B. Valsecchi, and A. Carusi. 1991. Planetary accretion rates: Analytical derivation. Icarus 94, 98-111. Click for PDF of article

A Brief Curriculum Vitae

Dr. William F. Bottke

Southwest Research Institute

1050 Walnut St, Suite 300

Boulder, CO 80302

Current Positions:

Director of the Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution (CLOE) of NASA’s Lunar Science Institute.
Director of the Department for Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado.
Chair, Planetary Astronomy/Atmospheres/Near-Earth Objects Observations Management Operations Working Group.

Background:

Born in Faribault, Minnesota.
B.S. in Physics and Astrophysics, University of Minnesota (1988).
Ph.D. in Planetary Science, University of Arizona (1995).

Research Interests:

The formation and bombardment history of planetesimals, planets and satellites.
The origin and evolution of small body populations throughout the solar system (e.g., asteroids, comets, irregular satellites, Kuiper belt objects, meteoroids, dust).
Evolution of near-Earth objects (NEOs) from their source regions in various asteroid and cometary populations to their observed orbits.

Fellowships and Honors

Eagle Scout
Valedictorian, Faribault Senior High School. 1984.
High Distinction, B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota, 1988.
Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award, University of Arizona (1995).
Texaco Prize Fellowship, Caltech, 1996-1997.
Asteroid 1995 HN2 is named (7355) Bottke, 1999.
Editor of Space Science Series book “Asteroids III” (U. of Arizona Press), 2002.
1^st Paolo Farinella Prize. 2011. Presented at EPSC-DPS 2011 meeting in Nantes, France. Sponsored by University of Pisa, the Space Academy Foundation, IASF-INAF and IFSI-INAF (Rome).

Last Revised: March 16, 2012