The plane of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt |
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| Authors: | Simon J Collander-Brown Iwan P Williams |
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| Institution: | a Department of Physics, Queens University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
b Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | We examine possible locations for the primordial disk of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt (EKB), using several subsets of the known objects as markers of the total mass distribution. Using a secular perturbation theory, we find that the primordial plane of the EKB could have remained thin enough to escape detection only if it is clustered very closely about the invariable plane of the Solar System. |
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| Keywords: | Transneptunian objects Planetary dynamics Orbits Origin Solar System |
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