A dynamical history of the inner Neptunian satellites

Details A dynamical history of the inner Neptunian satellites A dynamical history of the inner Neptunian satellites

Oct 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar...99..390b&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 99, no. 2, p. 390-401.

Physics

33

Neptune Satellites, Orbital Mechanics, Orbital Resonances (Celestial Mechanics), Satellite Orbits, Chaos, Collisions, Nereid, Planetary Rings, Triton

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The dynamical history of Neptune's satellite system is presently inferred on the basis of a Triton capture-origin scenario in which that moon's elongated postcapture orbit generated chaotic perturbations of the original satellites' eccentricities; this, in turn, led to mutual collisions among the inner satellites until a ring of debris was formed. Neptune's inner satellite system thereby reformed on equatorial orbits after the orbtal circularization of Triton. Attention is given to the 4.7-deg inclination of 1989N6, which may be due to a temporary inclination-resonance capture.

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