William Bottke Publications

Dr. William F. Bottke

Southwest Research Institute

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Boulder, CO 80302

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Recent Papers of Particular Interest

Bottke, W. F., D. Vokrouhlicky, and D. Nesvorny. 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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

Curriculum Vitae

2008

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

Last Revised: April 2, 2008

Last Revised: September 10, 2007