Extreme Secular Excitation of Eccentricity Inside Mean Motion Resonance: Driving Small Bodies into Star-Grazing Orbits by Planetary Perturbations

Gabriele Pichierri, Alessandro Morbidelli, Dong Lai

It is well known that asteroids and comets fall into the Sun. Metal pollution of white dwarfs and transient spectroscopic signatures of young stars like $\beta$-Pic provide growing evi…