Trojans in stable chaotic motion
- Author(s)
- Elke Pilat-Lohinger, Rudolf Dvorak, Christian Alexander Burger
- Abstract
The orbits of 13 Trojan asteroids have been calculated numerically in the model of the outer solar system for a time interval of 100 million years. For these asteroids Milani et al. (1997) determined Lyapunov times less than 100 000 years and introduced (be notion "asteroids in stable chaotic motion". We studied the dynamical behavior of these Trojan asteroids (except the asteroid Thersites which escaped after 26 million years) within 11 time intervals - i.e. subintervals of the whole time - by means of: (1) a numerical frequency analysis (2) the root mean square (r.m.s.) of the orbital elements and (3) the proper elements. For each time interval we compared the root mean squares of the orbital elements (a, e and i) with the corresponding proper element. It turned out that the variations of the proper elements ep in the different time intervals are correlated with the corresponding r.m.s.(e); this is not the case for sin Ip with r.m.s.(i).
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- Journal
- Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy: an international journal of space dynamics
- Volume
- 73
- Pages
- 117-126
- No. of pages
- 10
- ISSN
- 0923-2958
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008338811969
- Publication date
- 1999
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/8c902d48-d7b6-46e5-8f03-e7942d1038bc