Among the Hungarias: Dynamics at the Inner Edge of the Asteroid Belt

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...201.4503m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #45.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1171

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Hungarias are a ragged band of asteroids orbiting at around 1.9AU, just inside what is typically defined as the inner edge of the main asteroid belt at 2AU. They occupy a dynamical niche carved out by mean-motion and secular resonances. Orbits in the Hungarias have low eccentricities but are confined to high inclinations. Moderate eccentricity boosts above ~0.2 swing these asteroids across the orbit of Mars. Some will also approach Earth's orbit. I present numerical simulations to demonstrate the detailed orbital evolutions in this region, and analytical calculations which characterize the long-term dynamics.

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