A: The solar system contains hundreds of thousands of small bodies larger than a few kilometers in size. Many are in the main asteroid belt, which contains the fragmentary remnants of planetesimals, ...

We have calculated the figure of equilibrium of a rapidly rotating, differentiated body to determine the shape, structure, and composition of the dwarf planet Haumea. Previous studies of Haumea’s ...

ISOSTATIC equilibrium ensues only after disturbances have ceased. The strata of mountains must originally have been deposited horizontally. They may be held to have attained to heights much greater ...