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Small Body Dynamics with SBDynT: Proper Elements and Chaos Analysis

  • Authors: Dallin Spencer, Kat Volk, Darin Ragozzine, Renu Malhotra

Dallin Spencer et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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TNO 2019 QQ110’s eccentricity and inclination evolution over a 150 Myr integration. The g + s − g8 − s8 resonance produces an ≈300 Myr long-period term in the evolution of this object. While technically periodic, the growth in eccentricity and inclination in this resonance is so slow, it only appears periodic on timescales comparable to the age of the solar system. Objects even closer to the center of a resonance would have longer-period terms, producing apparent constant adiabatic growth in eccentricity and inclination over the age of the solar system. Even with an additional filter applied to the inclination time array, this long-term variation cannot be fully filtered out, since it is not resolved by the full integration, artificially increasing the computed proper element uncertainties. Increasing the integration length can better handle this long-period term.

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