Where do the Apollo objects come from?

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Apollo Asteroids, Comets, Cosmology, Monte Carlo Method, Orbital Mechanics, Solar System, Elliptical Orbits, Jupiter (Planet), Orbital Resonances (Celestial Mechanics), Secular Variations

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The orbital evolutions of 1-45 km-diameter Apollo and Amor bodies generated by asteroid belt collisions interior to 2.6 AU are presently traced by Monte Carlo calculations. About 3 percent of the asteroidal fragments of this type and size that are ejected with velocities of 100 m/sec are perturbed into earth-crossing orbits by the 3:1 Jovian commensurability resonance at 2.5 AU, as well as a secular resonance in the innermost asteroid belt. While the initial earth-crossing orbits of these bodies are concentrated near 1 AU, their steady-state orbital distribution is widely dispersed. Additional objects that may be characterized as inactive comets are inferred from strongly suggestive data.

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