The Geometry of Keyholes

Details The Geometry of Keyholes The Geometry of Keyholes

Oct 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000dps....32.1308v&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #32, #13.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1017

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The term `keyhole' has been introduced by Chodas (1999) to denote the small regions of the b-plane of a specific close encounter of an asteroid with, say, the Earth, having the property that, if the asteroid passes through one of them, it will hit the planet at a subsequent encounter. Using Öpik's theory of close encounters, it is possible to show that keyholes leading to a primary resonant or non-resonant return are described by a very simple geometry, and their location on the b-plane is given by very simple analytical expressions. The theory allows also to describe the size and shape of the keyholes, and to find the way in which secondary keyholes are nested within primary ones.

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