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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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CORRALLING A DISTANT PLANET WITH EXTREME RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]
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 +2 more
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CHAOTIC DIFFUSION OF RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]
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,
Matthew S Tiscareño, Renu Malhotra
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Orbital clustering of distant Kuiper belt objects by hypothetical Planet 9. Secular or resonant? [PDF]
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics ...
H Beust
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A new multiple-arc model of the resonant Kuiper belt objects – Plutinos
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyABSTRACT To incorporate the gravitational influence of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in planetary ephemerides, uniform-ring models are commonly employed. In this paper, for representing the KBO population residing in Neptune’s 2:3 mean motion resonance (MMR), known as the Plutinos, we introduce a three-arc model by considering their ...
Jian Li
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Using the density of Kuiper Belt Objects to constrain their composition and formation history [PDF]
Icarus, 2019 Carver J Bierson, Francis Nimmo
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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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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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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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