Some Peculiarities in the Asteroidal Belt
Abstract
The analysis of the fine structure of the Asteroidal Belt evidenciates a group of asteroids next to the resonance 4/9 with Jupiter. In this group and in other groups associated to the Hirayama families there are indications that their orbital parameters can be represented by quantum numbers as defined here and in two of our previous works. Together with this the distribution of the eccentricities and inclinations of the orbital planes of short period comets and diverse type of asteroids indicates that they can be classified as objects with e > sin i and objects with e > sin i with a limit e = sin i which determinates geometrical properties of the orbits related with discrete states in the solar system. This study lets open the possibility of following studies in order to confirm the quantum characteristics of the Asteroidal Belt being these characteristics common to all the solar system and depending of the same fundamental constant of action per mass unit H 0 = 1/2π φ 0 × T 0 (potential × time) because only a small part of all the available data in the Asteroid Belt is used here.
- Publication:
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Earth Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- February 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00055129
- Bibcode:
- 1986EM&P...34..117C
- Keywords:
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- Asteroid Belts;
- Comets;
- Jupiter (Planet);
- Solar Orbits;
- Fine Structure;
- Histograms;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Quantum Numbers;
- Resonance;
- Astronomy; Asteroids