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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between binary asteroids and mean motion resonances (MMRs). For more than 700 asteroids from two catalogues, the Johnston Archive [Johnston, 2024] and the Gaia DR3 VizieR list of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Natasa Todorovic , Ivana Milic Zitnik

The Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey discovered four trans-Neptunian objects with semi-major axes near the 5:1 resonance, revealing a large and previously undetected intrinsic population. Three of these objects are currently resonant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. E. Pike , J. J. Kavelaars , J. M. Petit , B. J. Gladman , M. Alexandersen , K. Volk , C. J. Shankman

The characteristics of the resonant disturbing function for an asteroid perturbed by a planet in circular orbit are discussed. The location of the libration centers and their dependence with the orbital elements of the resonant orbit are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-16 Tabare Gallardo

This work explores the orbital distribution of minor bodies in the outer Solar System emplaced as a result of a Nice model migration from the simulations of Brasser & Morbidelli (2013). This planetary migration scatters a planetesimal disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Rosemary E. Pike , Samantha Lawler , Ramon Brasser , Cory J. Shankman , Mike Alexandersen , J. J. Kavelaars

Red (S > 10%/0.1 micron) spectral slopes are common among Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in the outer solar system. Interior to and co-orbital with Jupiter, the red (S approx. = 10%/0.1 micron) slopes of D-type main-belt and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Oriel A. Humes , Cristina A. Thomas , Lauren E. McGraw

A group of newly observed extreme trans-Neptunian objects exhibit unexpected orbital confinement, characterized by the alignment of orbital angular momentum vectors and apsidal lines. It is proposed that an undiscovered giant planet, named…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Rafael Ribeiro , Andre Izidoro , Alessandro Morbidelli , David Nesvorny , Othon Cabo Winter

We study the presence of resonances in the region of space around the Earth. We consider a massless body (e.g, a dust particle or a small space debris) subject to different forces: the gravitational attraction of the geopotential, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Alessandra Celletti , Catalin Gales , Christoph Lhotka

Context: The role of Pluto contributing to the long-term evolution of the trans-Neptunian region has been considered significant only over its neighboring Plutinos. However, it has recently been found that the long-term stability of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 S. Ramírez-Vargas , A. Peimbert , M. A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. Perez-Villegas

Pairs of migrating extrasolar planets often lock into mean motion resonance as they drift inward. This paper studies the convergent migration of giant planets (driven by a circumstellar disk) and determines the probability that they are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jacob A. Ketchum , Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch

Observations of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in Neptune's 5:2 resonance present two puzzles: this third order resonance hosts a surprisingly large population, comparable to the prominent populations of Plutinos and Twotinos in the first order…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Renu Malhotra , Lei Lan , Kathryn Volk , Xianyu Wang

The outer solar system is populated by a broad aggregate of minor bodies, which occupy orbits whose dynamical character ranges from long-term stable to rapidly diffusive. We investigate the chaotic properties of known distant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Gabriele Pichierri , Konstantin Batygin

Many extrasolar planetary systems containing multiple super-Earths have been discovered. N-body simulations taking into account standard type-I planetary migration suggest that protoplanets are captured into mean-motion resonant orbits near…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuji Matsumoto , Makiko Nagasawa , Shigeru Ida

The orbital distribution of transneptunian objects (TNOs) in the distant Kuiper Belt (with semimajor axes beyond the 2:1 resonance, roughly $a$=50-100 au) provides constraints on the dynamical history of the outer solar system. Recent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-27 Yukun Huang , Brett Gladman , Matthew Beaudoin , Kevin Zhang

A considerable fraction of multi-planet systems discovered by the observational surveys of extrasolar planets reside in mild proximity to first-order mean motion resonances. However, the relative remoteness of such systems from nominal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Konstantin Batygin , Alessandro Morbidelli

Recent observations (Burnes2002,Veillet2002,Margot2002a) have revealed an unexpectedly high binary fraction among the Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) that populate the Kuiper Belt. The TNO binaries are strikingly different from asteroid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoko Funato , Junichiro Makino , Piet Hut , Eiichiro Kokubo , Daisuke Kinoshita

The existence of a giant planet beyond Neptune -- referred to as Planet Nine (P9) -- has been inferred from the clustering of longitude of perihelion and pole position of distant eccentric Kuiper belt objects (KBOs). After updating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Michael E. Brown , Konstantin Batygin

A systematic, population-level discrepancy exists between the densities of exoplanets whose masses have been measured with transit timing variations (TTVs) versus those measured with radial velocities (RVs). Since the TTV planets are…

(Abridged) New optical colors of 58 objects in mean motion resonances with Neptune show the various resonant populations have significantly different color distributions. The 5:3 and 7:4 resonances have semi-major axes near the middle of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Scott S. Sheppard

Unlike the Solar System planets, thousands of smaller bodies beyond Neptune orbit the Sun on eccentric ($e >$ 0.1) and ($i>$ 3$^\circ$) orbits. While migration of the giant planets during the early stages of Solar System evolution can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Susanne Pfalzner , Amith Govind , Simon Portegies Zwart

The results of the numerical investigations of the evolution of orbits of trans-Neptunian bodies at the 2 : 3 resonance with Neptune are presented. The gravitational influence of the four giant planets was taken into account. For identical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 S. I. Ipatov , J. Henrard