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2006年SQ372:一颗可能来自内奥尔特云的长周期彗星

2006 SQ372: A Likely Long-Period Comet from the Inner Oort Cloud

Nathan A. Kaib, Andrew C. Becker, R. Lynne Jones, Andrew W. Puckett, Dmitry Bizyaev, Benjamin Dilday, Joshua A. Frieman, Daniel J. Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Thomas Qu… 展开作者

Nathan A. Kaib, Andrew C. Becker, R. Lynne Jones, Andrew W. Puckett, Dmitry Bizyaev, Benjamin Dilday, Joshua A. Frieman, Daniel J. Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Thomas Quinn, Donald P. Schneider, Shannon Watters

摘要:

我们发现了一颗小行星(2006 SQ 372),其轨道近日点为24 AU,半长轴为796 AU。动力学模拟表明,这是一个短暂的轨道,在2亿年的时间尺度上是不稳定的。落在散射盘的上半长轴范围和奥尔特云的下半长轴范围附近,以前属于任何一类都是可能的。通过模拟从奥尔特云以及从散射盘产生类似的轨道,我们发现,奥尔特云产生的SQ 372-like轨道上的物体是散射盘的16倍。根据这一结果,我们认为这是迄今为止发现的最遥远的长周期彗星。此外,我们的模拟结果还表明,2000 OO 67有一个类似的动力学历史。不受“彗星-土星屏障”的影响,这两个天体很可能是来自内部奥尔特云的长周期彗星。

英文摘要:

We report the discovery of a minor planet (2006 SQ372) on an orbit with a perihelion of 24 AU and a semimajor axis of 796 AU. Dynamical simulations show that this is a transient orbit and is unstable on a timescale of 200 Myrs. Falling near the upper semimajor axis range of the scattered disk and the lower semimajor axis range of the Oort Cloud, previous membership in either class is possible. By modeling the production of similar orbits from the Oort Cloud as well as from the scattered disk, we find that the Oort Cloud produces 16 times as many objects on SQ372-like orbits as the scattered disk. Given this result, we believe this to be the most distant long-period comet ever discovered. Furthermore, our simulation results also indicate that 2000 OO67 has had a similar dynamical history. Unaffected by the "Jupiter-Saturn Barrier," these two objects are most likely long-period comets from the inner Oort Cloud.

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