Welcome to my web page.   My name is Valerio Carruba and I am a graduate student at Cornell University.   My main interests are the dynamical evolution of asteroids family and the irregular satellites of jovian planets.    If you have any comments or suggestions please send me an email.
 

• How to contact me

• Matlab notes
• IRAF notes
• Images of Rome
• Useful Links - Links prepared for Astro102

Here there are some of my papers.  For a complete list of my publications click here.

• Publications:

1. V. Carruba, A. Coradini 1999.  Lunar cold traps: effects of double shielding,  Icarus 142, p. 402-413.
2. V. Carruba, J. A. Burns, W. Bottke, and D. Nesvorny' 2002.  Dynamical evolution of the Adeona and Gefion asteroid families.  Special issue of Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, in press.
3. V. Carruba, J. A. Burns, P. D. Nicholson, and B. Gladman 2002.  On the inclination distribution of the jovian irregular satellites.  Icarus 158, pp. 434-449.
4. V. Carruba, J. A. Burns, W. 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, pp. 308-327.