Computer Science
Scientific paper
Aug 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010sosyr..44..281e&link_type=abstract
Solar System Research, Volume 44, Issue 4, pp.281-289
Computer Science
Scientific paper
One of the main particular features of the structure of the Kuiper Belt is that it contains clusters of objects of small orbital eccentricity and inclination (“cold population”). In order to solve the problem of the origin of the objects, we considered the process of the gravitational interaction of a comparatively small-mass planet with a planetesimal disk. We found that one particular property of the process is that the planet changes its direction of migration. The interaction with the planet results in the transportation of a considerable portion of planetesimals from the inner zone out to the Kuiper Belt. After such a transition of the objects, the planet returns to the inner regions of the planetesimal disk. Numerical simulations show that the reversible migration of a planet of a mass similar to that of the Earth can explain the main properties of the Kuiper Belt’s cold population orbit distribution.
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