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Formation of the Kirkwood Gaps in the Asteroid Belt

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The Stability of Planetary Systems

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A possible mechanism to explain the depletion of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt would be the slow dissipation of the solar nebula at the origin of the Solar System. The effects of this dissipation on a uniform distribution of asteroids are explored by means of the adiabatic invariant theory for the 2/1, 3/1 and 5/2 resonance cases. The framework is the restricted, circular and planar three body problem.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Rempart de la Vierge, 8, 5000, Namur, Belgium

    A. Lemaitre (Research Assistant)

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  1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    R. L. Duncombe

  2. Institut für Astronomie, Universität Wien, Wien, Österreich

    R. Dvorak

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Liverpool University, England

    P. J. Message

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Lemaitre, A. (1984). Formation of the Kirkwood Gaps in the Asteroid Belt. In: Duncombe, R.L., Dvorak, R., Message, P.J. (eds) The Stability of Planetary Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5331-4_28

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