Andrew J Hesselbrock
Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
39
Citations
112
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
16
Publishing since 2010
Andrew J Hesselbrock's research focuses on planetary science, particularly how rings and moons around planets like Mars and Uranus form and evolve over time. His work uses computer simulations to model processes such as the tidal breakup of small orbiting bodies and cycles where planetary rings and satellites (moons) form from each other repeatedly. This research helps explain the origins of moons like Mars's Phobos and Deimos, and Uranus's Miranda.
Publication output was concentrated around 2017-2019 with a burst of dataset and paper releases, followed by a long gap and only a single correction publication in 2025, indicating minimal recent activity.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos
Nature Geoscience · 2025
- Three Dynamical Evolution Regimes for Coupled Ring-satellite Systems and Implications for the Formation of the Uranian Satellite Miranda
The Astronomical Journal · 2019
- The Evolution of Rings and Satellites
Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University) · 2019
- Tidally-driven collapse of outer solar system binaries.
DDA · 2019
- The origin of Miranda from a massive early ring at Uranus.
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts · 2019
- Formation of Centaur Rings from Binary Collapse
AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts #50 · 2018
- Satellites.txt
Harvard Dataverse · 2017
- Results(t_3600000.0).txt
Harvard Dataverse · 2017
- 2.txt
Harvard Dataverse · 2017
- 1_4.txt
Harvard Dataverse · 2017
- 1.txt
Harvard Dataverse · 2017
- viscosity.plt
Harvard Dataverse · 2017
- An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos
Nature Geoscience · 2017
- t_10000.txt
Harvard Dataverse · 2017
- charnoz_data.txt
Harvard Dataverse · 2017
- Harvard Dataverse×24
- Nature Geoscience×2
- DPS×2
- The Astronomical Journal×1
- Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University)×1
- David A. Minton
Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Hunter Vannier
Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Viranga Perera
Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette
- H. J. Melosh
Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Colin D. Hamill
Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette
This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.
Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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