Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aps..apr.d1100n&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, APS April Meeting, April 22-26, 2006, abstract #D1.100
Physics
Scientific paper
Recent observations and theoretical studies show that multiple-member groupings of Kuiper Belt objects exist. Although their creation presents problems in current models, the inclusion of a massive third body (ex. one of the outer planets or a forming protoplanet) often provides the necessary conditions for the formation of such objects. The presence of a perturbing body can also provide clearing of the primordial Kuiper Belt while producing more stable, longer-lived multiple-member groupings of Kuiper belt objects. In this work, a fifth order Runge-Kutta algorithm is employed to numerically examine the situation described. It is shown that the interparticle gravitational interaction creates one of several effects; scattering into the Oort cloud, collisions with nearby growing protoplanets, formation of up to quartenary systems of Kuiper Belt objects, or creation of a single Kuiper belt object. Additionally, it is seen that the initial location of the precursors of the Kuiper belt objects can also have a significant effect on binary formation with objects near resonances tending not to form mutli-member groupings.
Hyde Truell
Nazzario Ray
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