CORRALLING A DISTANT PLANET WITH EXTREME RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

The four longest period Kuiper Belt objects have orbital periods close to integer ratios with each other. A hypothetical planet with an orbital period of similar to 17,117 years and a semimajor axis similar to 665 au would have N/1 and N/2 period ratios with these four objects. The orbital geometrie...

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Main Authors: Malhotra, Renu, Volk, Kathryn, Wang, Xianyu
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab
Language:en
Published: IOP PUBLISHING LTD 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621405
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/621405