A Specific Nongravitational Effect in the Asteroid Belt
- Authors: Kazantsev A.M.1, Kazantseva L.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Astronomical Observatory
- Issue: Vol 51, No 6 (2017)
- Pages: 527-534
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/0038-0946/article/view/170836
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094617060053
- ID: 170836
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Abstract
The evolution of orbits of asteroids found in the IRAS and WISE albedo databases was calculated numerically from 2005 to 2016. It follows from the analysis of the obtained results that a certain nongravitational effect (NGE) currently affects the motion of a considerable fraction of main-belt asteroids with diameters up to 40 km. This conclusion agrees with the available data regarding the axial rotation of asteroids. The NGE manifests itself in an increase in the semimajor axes of orbits of low-albedo asteroids relative to the semimajor axes of orbits of high-albedo bodies. The NGE-induced rate of elongation of semimajor axes of asteroids with albedos рv < 0.1 may be as high as (2–8) × 10–8 AU/year. Errors in orbital elements of asteroids (unrelated to the accuracy of observational data used to determine these orbital elements) were found in one of the MPC catalogues for 2003 in the process of estimation of the accuracy of calculations.
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A. M. Kazantsev
Astronomical Observatory
Author for correspondence.
Email: ankaz@observ.univ.kiev.ua
Ukraine, Kyiv, 04053
L. V. Kazantseva
Astronomical Observatory
Email: ankaz@observ.univ.kiev.ua
Ukraine, Kyiv, 04053
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