Secular resonances with Ceres and Vesta
arXiv:1607.02035 · doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.06.024
Abstract
In this work we explore dynamical perturbations induced by the massive asteroids Ceres and Vesta on main-belt asteroids through secular resonances. First we determine the location of the linear secular resonances with Ceres and Vesta in the main belt, using a purely numerical technique. Then we use a set of numerical simulations of fictitious asteroids to investigate the importance of these secular resonances in the orbital evolution of main-belt asteroids. We found, evaluating the magnitude of the perturbations in the proper elements of the test particles, that in some cases the strength of these secular resonances is comparable to that of known non-linear secular resonances with the giant planets. Finally we explore the asteroid families that are crossed by the secular resonances we studied, and identified several cases where the latter seem to play an important role in their post-impact evolution.
References in corpus (6)
- Asteroid families classification: exploiting very large data sets
- The Yarkovsky and YORP Effects
- Footprints of a possible Ceres asteroid paleo-family
- A population of main belt asteroids co-orbiting with Ceres and Vesta
- Secular evolution of asteroid families: the role of Ceres
- Secular resonances between bodies on close orbits: a case study of the Himalia prograde group of jovian irregular satellites
Cited by in corpus (10)
- Asteroid Families: properties, recent advances and future opportunities
- Source regions of carbonaceous meteorites and NEOs
- An automatic approach to exclude interlopers from asteroid families
- Asteroid families interacting with secular resonances
- Discovery of a young subfamily of the (221)~Eos asteroid family
- Resonances in the asteroid and trans-Neptunian belts: a brief review
- Analysis of the Karma asteroid family
- Maps of secular resonances in the NEO region
- Secular resonances between bodies on close orbits II: prograde and retrograde orbits for irregular satellites
- On age of 6070 Rheinland and 54827 (2001 NQ8) asteroid pair