Regular Article

On the role of resonance effects in statistical distributions of centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects

B.R. Mushailov, V.S. Teplitskaya

Moscow University Physics Bulletin 2010. 65. N 1. P. 59

Article

Annotation

This paper discusses patterns in the distribution of Centaurs, scattered disks, and Kuiper belt objects according to the semi-major axes, eccentricities and inclinations of their orbits. Over half of them are found to move in resonant orbits and these were predicted earlier. An interpretation is given for the divergence of the maximum in the observed semi-major axis distribution with an exact orbital resonance determined within the classical three-body problem.

Received: 2009 July 8

Approved: 2010 May 28

PACS:

96.30.Xa Kuiper belt, trans-Neptunian objects

Authors

B.R. Mushailov, V.S. Teplitskaya
Astrometry Department, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Universitetskii pr., Moscow, 119992, Russia

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