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How do orbital resonances with Jupiter have affected the asteroid belt?
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∙ 10y ago
Jupiter's gravity works against the sun's gravity to keep the asteroid belt in place. The sun pull one way and Jupiter pull the other way, and because Jupiter is closer the gracity between it and the astroids is the same as the gravity between the sun and the astroids. This caused the astroids to stay in one place, as what we know as the Astroid Belt.
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∙ 10y agodistinguish between primitive meteroities and processed meteorities in term of both composition and orgins
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Is Jupiter in an orbital resonance with another body?
An orbital resonance between two celestial bodies happens when two bodies exert a regular gravitational influence on one another. Some scenarios say that a past resonance between Jupiter and Saturn may have cause Uranus and Neptune to switch places.
How is a wave function related to an orbital?
(Ψ2) represents orbital
What is the value of orbital velocity?
the approximate value of orbital velocity is about 8km/hr.
Who discovered atomic orbital?
Patrica Anex She's a really good scientist.
What is orbital energy of an orbiting object?
Orbital energy is the sum of the object's kinetic energy and its gravitational potential energy as it moves through its orbit.
What are large gaps in the asteroid belt often called Kirkwood gaps are caused by?
Orbital resonances with Jupiter
Which one is most important in explaining the tremendous tidal heating that occurs on Io?
Io orbits Jupiter on an elliptical orbit, due to orbital resonances with other satellites.
What effect do these orbital resonances have on Io?
The orbital resonances cause Io to have an elliptical orbit which leads to tidal heating. Tidal heating makes Io the most volcanic object in our solar system.
An asteroid belt is found between what two planets orbital route?
The majority of asteroids are found between Mars and Jupiter.
Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt occur at distances where?
the period of an orbiting asteroid would be a simple fraction (like 1/3 or 1/4) of Jupiter's orbital period.
The orbital period of Jupiter is very close to 12 years What is the orbital period of an asteroid at the 52 resonance with Jupiter?
it is twelve years. but im only 10 months, and my dads 13 months so im am really sure about this foolish answer.
Why is there an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?
The asteroid belt formed from the primordial solar nebula as a group of planetesimals. Planetesimals are the smaller precursors of protoplanets. Between Mars and Jupiter, however, gravitational perturbations from Jupiter imbued the protoplanets with too much orbital energy for them to accrete into a planet.
What is the rotation of the asteroid belt?
Each individual member of the asteroid 'belt' ... and there may be millions of them ... revolves around the sun in its own orbit and with its own orbital period. Most of them stay between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, so their orbital periods are between 2 years and 12 years.
Where is Mars located usually?
In space, orbiting the sun. Its orbital position is fourth, between the Earth and Jupiter or, more specifically, between the Earth and the asteroid belt.
How long does it take Ganymede to travel around the sun?
Ganymede, the moon of Jupiter, is in orbit around Jupiter so its transit around the Sun would be the same as Jupiter's, about 11.8 Earth years. 1036 Ganymede, the asteroid, has an orbital period of about 4.34 Earth years.
How do planets change orbital speed change?
Planets with elliptical orbits are affected by the difference in the strength of the Sun's gravity as they move closer to, or farther away from, the Sun. The only other major effect on planets are the gravity of other planets, notably Jupiter and Neptune. Except for Mars, Ceres, Pluto, and trans-Neptunian planets, the effect is extremely small -- it has resulted in stable orbital resonances between several small outer planets and the planet Neptune.
Where in your solar system is the asteroid belt located?
The majority of the known asteroids spend the majority of their orbital periods at distances from the sun that are between the distances of Mars and Jupiter, so that's where you'll see the "asteroid belt" located on a sketch of the solar system.
