Concerning Brouwer's paper on the Kirkwood Gaps

1966 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Brouwer ◽  
William H. Jefferys
Keyword(s):  
Kirkwood Gaps

On the alleged collisional origin of the Kirkwood gaps

Icarus ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.A. Heppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Kirkwood Gaps

scholarly journals Stability of Asteroid Motions

1992 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Y. Kozai
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Evolution ◽  
Secular Perturbations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Kirkwood Gaps ◽  
Present Distribution

In this paper the author presents evidences showing that for most of the asteroids the motions are stable in the sense that they never approach major planets very closely and explains about mechanisms to avoid very close approaches by investigating the variations due to the secular perturbations of the eccentricities as functions of the arguments of perihelion, particularly, for asteroids with high eccentricities and inclinations. It is believed that some kinds of dynamical evolution processes have made the asteroid motions stable. The author shows also that there were some kinds of collisions among asteroids in the past which produced families and present distribution of asteroids as there are very faint asteroids only near Kirkwood gaps.

Nature of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt

Nature ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 301 (5897) ◽  
pp. 201-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley F. Dermott ◽  
Carl D. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Asteroid Belt ◽  
Kirkwood Gaps

scholarly journals Stability problem of Kirkwood Gaps

Nature ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 275 (5680) ◽  
pp. 568-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. AOKI
Keyword(s):  
Stability Problem ◽  
Kirkwood Gaps

scholarly journals Evolution of Orbits in the Outer Part of the Asteroidal Belt and in the Kirkwood Gaps

1979 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 223-226
Author(s):  
C. Froeschlé ◽  
H. Scholl
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Outer Part ◽  
Gravitational Perturbations ◽  
Asteroidal Belt ◽  
Kirkwood Gaps

It is well known that the semi-major axes of the asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are not uniformly distributed. The depleted regions in the outer part and the Kirkwood gaps in the inner part of the belt represent singularities in the frequency distribution of the asteroidal semi-major axes. The question whether these depleted regions and the Kirkwood gaps are due to gravitational perturbations of Jupiter or due to cosmogonic effects has not yet been solved and the discussion is still continuing.

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