Kirkwood Gaps

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5267.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5267. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Asteroids

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Narrow regions in the asteroid belt where few or no asteroids are found. The gaps arise from orbital resonances with Jupiter: commensurabilities of the period of Jupiter with the period of an asteroid orbiting in a Kirkwood gap. Because of Jupiter's dominant gravitational influence, an object orbiting in one of these gaps would sooner or later be perturbed into a different orbit. For example, the...

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