Mind the gap: investigating why the physical and orbital properties of 'hot' and 'cold' Classical KBOs mismatch.

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Oct 2011

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1011

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We have generated orbital parameters for 700 Classical Kuiper Belt Objects (CKBOs) and simulated their orbital evolution for 500 Myr. We have noticed that, during their orbital evolution, objects with initial orbital inclinations 5 - 10 make larger inclination excursions that others. Since the inclination variation of these objects is approximately pendulum-like, they spend more time at the extrema and less time at their (central) initial inclination, hence they are less likely to be seen there. We will discuss this phenomenon and analyze if it could be responsible for the observed inclination density gap at i 5 of the unbiased distribution of CKBOs.

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