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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.193342.29953@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:33:42 GMT
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- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
- :
- : I post this whole mess to sci.space and say "help" because it seems that
- : one side in a.f.u. is arguing as follows: _all_ asteroids occur between
- : the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Therefore Neptune, Pluto, etc. could not
- : possibly have captured asteroids because asteroids don't go out that far.
-
- Not quite. My definition of asteriod is: any body that orginated in the
- "asteriod belt" (between Mars and Jupiter). I have made no claim as to
- where they can orbit. Jupiter is large enough to cause significant perturbation
- to their orbits.
-
- However, it is a long way from Jupiter to Neptune. I am waiting for someone
- to post a reference that states that there are asteriods (by my definition)
- that orbit that far out.
-
- Bill
-