Asteroid impact and eccentricity of Earth's orbit

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Jul 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003amjph..71..687m&link_type=abstract

American Journal of Physics, Volume 71, Issue 7, pp. 687-690 (2003).

Physics

Educational Aids, Celestial Mechanics

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We obtain a simple equation that accurately describes the eccentricity that an asteroid or comet impact can cause in the Earth's nearly circular orbit about the Sun. It is found that the present eccentricity of the Earth could not have been caused or significantly altered by an asteroid or comet impact in the near past, nor could it be significantly altered by the impact of any asteroid or comet known to astronomers today.

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