Simulations for original distribution of KBOs

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Oct 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008acasn..49..413z&link_type=abstract

Acta Astronomica Sinica, vol. 49, no.4 , p.413-417

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Solar System: Kuiper Belt, Celestial Mechanics, Methods: N-Body Simulations

Scientific paper

Using N--body dynamical model including the Sun, 8 planets, Pluto, UB313 and massless particles without masses, we simulate the orbital evolution of 551 Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) whose parameters are now determined. The initial conditions of the simulations are their current observational orbital parameters. The integral time is retrograde, from now to -10×108yrs. The results show that before 10×108yrs, more then 1/3 of the now observational KBOs had resided in the region of the Kuiper main belt, a few located inner Neptune orbit, and rest distributed outer 50AU; before 4.5×108yrs, the distribution of objects in the Kuiper main belt was normal, no large numbers of objects congregated in Neptune 3:2 resonance.

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