Dynamical relations between asteroids, meteorites and Apollo-Amor objects

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Amor Asteroid, Apollo Asteroids, Asteroids, Meteorites, Orbital Mechanics, Asteroid Belts, Meteoritic Composition, Monte Carlo Method, Orbit Calculation, Solar Orbits, Stony Meteorites, Stony-Iron Meteorites, Planets, Asteroids, Meteorites, Apollo Asteroids, Amor Asteroids, Dynamics, Monte Carlo Methods, Orbits, Evolution, Debris, Origin, Formation, Earth-Crossers, Source, Ordinary Chondrites, C Chondrites, Carbonaceous Chondrites, Stony Meteorites, Asteroid Belt, Resonance, Flux, Achondrites, Enstatites, E

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A Monte Carlo technique has been used to investigate the orbital evolution of asteroidal collision debris produced interior to 2.6 AU. It is found that there are two regions primarily responsible for production of earth-crossing meteoritic material and Apollo objects. The region adjacent to the 3:1 Jovian commensurability resonance (2.5 AU) is unique in providing material in the required quantity and orbital distribution of the ordinary chondrites. This region should also supply a comparable preatmospheric flux of carbonaceous meteorites. The innermost asteroid belt (2.17-2.25 AU), via the nu6 secular resonance, provides a flux about 9 percent of that of the ordinary chondrites, and appears to be the strongest candidate for the basaltic achondrite source region. It is unlikely that a significant number of meteorites originate beyond 2.6 AU. It is specualted that enstatite achondrites are derived from the Hungaria region, interior to the main belt, and that iron and stony-iron meteorites originate from many main-belt sources interior to 2.6 AU.

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