Secular resonance
A secular resonance is a type of
asteroids and their families within the asteroid belt
.
Description
Secular resonances occur when the
inclination
of the small body.
One can distinguish between:
- linear secular resonances between a body (no subscript) and a single other large perturbing body (e.g. a planet, subscript as numbered from the Sun), such as the ν6 = g − g6 secular resonance between asteroids and Saturn; and
- nonlinear secular resonances, which are higher-order resonances, usually combination of linear resonances such as the z1 = (g − g6) + (s − s6), or the ν6 + ν5 = 2g − g6 − g5 resonances.[2]
ν6 resonance
A prominent example of a linear resonance is the ν6 secular resonance between
inclinations
of about 20°.
See also
References
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