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Jul 1997
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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #29, #03.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.959
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Over the last few years, numerical integrations by many workers have shown that asteroids are perturbed into Earth-crossing orbits very quickly (< 10(6) y). It is, however, apparently more difficult for asteroids to be captured into orbits similar to the observed population. In addition, some ``special'' populations have been suggested, such as asteroid streams and an overabundance of small low-eccentricity objects. There are a number of Solar-system resonances that affect objects in the terrestrial-planet region of the Solar system. Integrations have shown that the nu_5 , nu_6 , nu_ {16} and Kozai resonances affect most Earth-crossing asteroids over the course of a few million years. There are certainly other resonances as well. Such resonances could (and do) make some orbits more stable than others, which could be responsible for these effects. I integrated the orbits of 2400 asteroids in Earth-crossing orbits for 2 to 10 million years, in an attempt to identify (or rule out) the sources of these special populations. Earlier work showed that the low-eccentricity objects mix with the general population in a few million years, but did not examine how such objects could be generated. In addition, those integrations showed some regions of orbital-element space where the population should be enhanced, but the number of particles examined was too small to be definitive. The current integrations examine many more particles for a much longer time. These integrations show that, under some initial conditions, population enhancements do occur. In some cases, these regions are dynamic: there are always extra particles there, but individual particles move in and out, due to resonances and to close approaches to the Earth. However, in some of these cases, the initial conditions were somewhat artificial. More integrations and analysis are in progress.
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