File:AmycusAnim.gif
Summary
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_(minor_planet)" class="extiw" title="en:Centaur (minor planet)">Centaur</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55576_Amycus" class="extiw" title="en:55576 Amycus">55576 Amycus</a> (2002 GB10) lies within 0.009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit" class="extiw" title="en:Astronomical unit">AU</a> of the 3:4 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance" class="extiw" title="en:Orbital resonance">resonance</a> of Uranus. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407400v1">(Horner 2004)</a> This animation shows motion of Amycus in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/tutorials/rotatingframe.html">rotating frame</a> with a period equal to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus" class="extiw" title="en:Uranus">Uranus</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orbital_period" class="extiw" title="en:orbital period">orbital period</a>. The motion fails to retain a long-term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(131696)_2001_XT254" class="extiw" title="en:(131696) 2001 XT254">libration</a>. Neptune is white, Uranus is the stationary blue line (rotating frame) at 4 o'clock, Saturn is yellow, and Jupiter is red. The animated GIF consists of 100 frames covering 25,000 years. Each frame covers 3*84.07 years.
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| current | 22:53, 16 January 2017 | | 640 × 480 (618 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_(minor_planet)" class="extiw" title="en:Centaur (minor planet)">Centaur</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55576_Amycus" class="extiw" title="en:55576 Amycus">55576 Amycus</a> (2002 GB10) lies within 0.009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit" class="extiw" title="en:Astronomical unit">AU</a> of the 3:4 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance" class="extiw" title="en:Orbital resonance">resonance</a> of Uranus. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407400v1">(Horner 2004)</a> This animation shows motion of Amycus in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/tutorials/rotatingframe.html">rotating frame</a> with a period equal to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus" class="extiw" title="en:Uranus">Uranus</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/orbital_period" class="extiw" title="en:orbital period">orbital period</a>. The motion fails to retain a long-term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(131696)_2001_XT254" class="extiw" title="en:(131696) 2001 XT254">libration</a>. Neptune is white, Uranus is the stationary blue line (rotating frame) at 4 o'clock, Saturn is yellow, and Jupiter is red. The animated GIF consists of 100 frames covering 25,000 years. Each frame covers 3*84.07 years. </p> |
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