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Resonant Kuiper belt objects: a review [PDF]
Geoscience Letters, 2019 Our understanding of the history of the solar system has undergone a revolution in recent years, owing to new theoretical insights into the origin of Pluto and the discovery of the Kuiper belt and its rich dynamical structure.
Renu Malhotra
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CHAOTIC DIFFUSION OF RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2009 We carried out extensive numerical orbit integrations to probe the long-term chaotic dynamics of the two strongest mean motion resonances of Neptune in the Kuiper belt, the 3:2 (Plutinos) and 2:1 (Twotinos). Our primary results include a computation of the relative volumes of phase space characterized by large- and small-resonance libration amplitudes,
Tiscareno, Matthew S., Malhotra, Renu
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The drag-induced resonant capture for Kuiper Belt objects [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2004 It has been an interesting question that why there are one-third of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) trapped into the 3:2 resonance but, in contrast, only several KBOs are claimed to be associated with the 2:1 resonance. In a model proposed by Zhou et al. (2002), the stochastic outward migration of the Neptune could reduce the number of particles in the 2:1 ...
Jiang, Ing-Guey, Yeh, Li-Chin
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Col-OSSOS: The Distribution of Surface Classes in Neptune's Resonances
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The distribution of surface classes of resonant trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) provides constraints on the protoplanetesimal disk and giant planet migration.
Rosemary E. Pike +11 more
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CORRALLING A DISTANT PLANET WITH EXTREME RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016 ABSTRACT The four longest period Kuiper Belt objects have orbital periods close to integer ratios with each other. A hypothetical planet with an orbital period of ∼17,117 years and a semimajor axis ∼665 au would have N/1 and N/2 period ratios with these four objects.
Renu Malhotra, Kathryn Volk, Xianyu Wang
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A Dynamical Survey of the Trans-Neptunian Region. I. Mean-motion Resonances with Neptune
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023 In this paper, we present a large-scale dynamical survey of the trans-Neptunian region, with particular attention to mean-motion resonances (MMRs). We study a set of 4121 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), a sample far larger than in previous works.
E. Forgács-Dajka +4 more
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Is There an Earth-like Planet in the Distant Kuiper Belt?
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 The orbits of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) can indicate the existence of an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system. Here we used N -body computer simulations to investigate the effects of a hypothetical Kuiper Belt planet (KBP) on the orbital ...
Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Takashi Ito
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Dynamical determination of the Kuiper Belt's mass from motions of the inner planets of the Solar System [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper we dynamically determine the mass of the Kuiper Belt Objects by exploiting the latest observational determinations of the orbital motions of the inner planets of the Solar System.
Anderson +26 more
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THE COLOR DIFFERENCES OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS IN RESONANCE WITH NEPTUNE [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2012 (Abridged) New optical colors of 58 objects in mean motion resonances with Neptune show the various resonant populations have significantly different color distributions. The 5:3 and 7:4 resonances have semi-major axes near the middle of the main Kuiper Belt and both are dominated by ultra-red material. The 5:3 and 7:4 resonances have statistically the
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On the Size-Dependence of the Inclination Distribution of the Main Kuiper Belt [PDF]
, 2000 We present a new analysis of the currently available orbital elements for the known Kuiper belt objects. In the non-resonant, main Kuiper belt we find a statistically significant relationship between an object's absolute magnitude (H) and its inclination
Harold F. Levison +2 more
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