Abstract:
Previous works have shown that some features of small bodies of the
Solar System (mass, diameters, rotation periods, and apparent magnitudes) are relatively well modeled by distributions originally derived from Tsallis statistical mechanics.
Some of the observed distributions are fitted in almost the entire range of the variables,
different from other distributions. We revisit these previous studies and update them
with recent data. Our results corroborate the previous ones, – that distributions based
on the q-exponential family are usually found in statistical description of these planetary systems –, and reinforce the conjecture that the underlying mechanism that generates these observed data may have a nonextensive nature.
