THE IRREGULAR SATELLITES: THE MOST COLLISIONALLY EVOLVED POPULATIONS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

@article{Bottke2010THEIS,  title={THE IRREGULAR SATELLITES: THE MOST COLLISIONALLY EVOLVED POPULATIONS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM},  author={William F. Bottke and David Nesvorn{\'y} and David Vokrouhlick{\'y} and Alessandro Morbidelli},  journal={The Astronomical Journal},  year={2010},  volume={139},  pages={994 - 1014},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:54075311}}
The known irregular satellites of the giant planets are dormant comet-like objects that reside on stable prograde and retrograde orbits in a realm where planetary perturbations are only slightly larger than solar ones. Their size distributions and total numbers are surprisingly comparable to one another, with the observed populations at Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus having remarkably shallow power-law slopes for objects larger than 8–10 km in diameter. Recent modeling work indicates that they may… 

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