论文信息 - Origin of multikilometer earth- and mars-crossing asteroids: A quantitative simulation

Origin of multikilometer earth- and mars-crossing asteroids: A quantitative simulation

Orbital dynamic simulations show that many asteroids in the main asteroid belt are driven toward Mars-crossing orbits by numerous weak mean motion resonances, which slowly increase the orbital ellipticity of the asteroids. In addition, half of the Mars-crossing asteroids (MCAs) transition to Earth-crossing asteroids (ECAs) in less than 20 million years. This scenario quantitatively explains the observed number of large ECAs and MCAs.

Morbidelli | Migliorini | Michel | Nesvorny | Zappala

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