Destroying resonance between Neptune and its resonant Kuiper Belt Objects by stochastic planetesimal scatterings
Peng Jiang, Univ. Science and Technology of China
Advisor: Eugene Chiang, Berkeley
Abstract: We revisit the destruction of resonance between Neptune and Kuiper Belt
Objects (KBOs) by random planetesimal scatterings, which has been studied by
Murray-Clay and Chiang (2006) previously. In this work, we consider
the encounters between Neptune's resonant KBOs and planetesimals and the Levy
flight behavior of resonant KBOs corresponding to a single big kick. The analysis
in this work is based on order-of-magnitude estimation.
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