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Re: Asteroid resonance - Reuter's



>It's the last half of this last statement that needs clarification -
>"they're not too weak so that the asteroids just stay
>in the asteroid belt,"   It implies that the weak resonances effectively are
>responsible (aside from collisions and Jupiter) for 'getting' asteroids out
?of the belt.   Is this correct?  Are the weaker resonances,( in addition to
>Jupiter's influence and the inevitable collisions within the belt,)
>responsible for removing asteroids from the belt?  

Perhaps.  All of the bodies in the solar system have some gravity
effect on each other in varying degrees. There may be weaker resonances
that don't noticeably manifest themselves unless it is over a long
period of time. 

Ron Baalke

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