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Re: Asteroid resonance - Reuter's
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- Subject: Re: Asteroid resonance - Reuter's
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 19:08:36 GMT
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>Obviously, Mars and Earth are not bumping asteroids out of the asteroid
>belt. (using gravity as Jupiter is.) The latter resonance refers to the
>gravity of the two planets pulling
>asteroids inward. What is the distinction between gravity and resonance
>with regard to the 'weaker' gravity of these two planets?
Mars and Earth are much smaller planets than Jupiter, and their gravity
are not as noticeable. Or to put it another way, the effects of Jupiter's
gravity are so much greater that they overwhelm any of the gravity effects
from the smaller planets. Jupiter's mass is more than all of the other
eight planets combined.
Ron Baalke
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