Numerical simulations of close encounters between Jupiter and minor bodies.
Abstract
Numerical work on close encounters between Jupiter and fictitious small bodies is reviewed along with two related problems, i.e. the changes in populations of planet-crossers due to an encounter with Jupiter and the occurrence of temporary satellite captures. Temporary satellite captures are found to occur when the initial orbit of the minor body is nearly tangent to that of the planet. An improvement of the method used earlier for close-encounter computations, allowing for the variation of the number of interacting bodies, is presented. With this new method, the very close encounters of some fictitious bodies of previous studies have been recomputed taking into account the presence of the Galilean satellites and of the outer planets. While the effects of the latter on satellite captures, and in general on the orbital evolution, appear to be unimportant, the effects of the Galilean satellites are in some cases quite relevant.
- Publication:
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Asteroids
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979aste.book..391C
- Keywords:
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- Asteroids;
- Capture Effect;
- Galilean Satellites;
- Jupiter (Planet);
- Mathematical Models;
- Planetary Orbits;
- Celestial Mechanics;
- Comets;
- Orbital Elements;
- Perihelions;
- Planetary Evolution;
- Astronomy;
- Minor Planets:Encounters