Forced resonant migration of Pluto's outer satellites by charon

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5790, 2006, Pages 1107-1109

  Ward, William R ^a   Canup, Robin M ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; GALAXIES; MOON; ORBITS; RESONANCE; SPACE DEBRIS;

CHARON; LOW-ECCENTRICITY ORBITS; PRIMORDIAL PLUTO; SATELLITE ORBITS;

SATELLITES;

ECCENTRICITY; EVOLUTION; MOON; ORBITAL FORCING; PLUTO;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; GRAVITY; MIGRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPACE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33748080478     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1127293     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. H. A. Weaver et al., Nature 439, 943 (2006).
2. A. Stern et al., Nature 439, 946 (2006).
3. M. W. Buie, W. M. Grundy, E. F. Young, L. A. Young. S. A. Stern, Astron. J. 132, 290 (2006).
4. P. Goldreich, Y. Lithwick, R. Sari, Nature 420, 643 (2002).
5. S. J. Weidenschilling, Icarus 160, 212 (2002).
6. W. B. McKinnon, Astrophys. J. 344, L41 (1989).
7. R. M. Canup, Science 307, 546 (2005).
8. R. M. Canup, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 42, 441 (2004).
9. A. R. Dobrovolskis, S. J. Peale, A. W. Harris, in Pluto and Charon, S. A. Stern, D. J. Tholen, Eds. (Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 1997), pp. 193-219.
10. P. Goldreich, S. Tremaine, N. Borderies, Astron. J. 92, 490 (1986).
11. F. Namouni, C. Porco, Nature 417, 45 (2002).
12. C. D. Murray, S. F. Dermott, Solar System Dynamics (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2001).
13. S. Dermott, R. Malhotra, C. D. Murray, Icarus 76, 295 (1988).
14. D. Brouwer, Astron. J. 68, 152 (1963).
15. P. Goldreich, S. Tremaine, Astrophys. J. 243, 1062 (1981).
16. Methods are available as supporting material on Science Online.
17. C. B. Olkin, L. H. Wasserman, O. G. Franz, Icarus 164, 254 (2003).
18. orb, respectively.
19. 5/m, so that the adiabatic constraint on ec eases as Charon's orbit expands.
20. P. Goldreich, S. Soter, Icarus 5, 375 (1966).
21. M. H. Lee, S. J. Peale, 2006. Preprint available at http://arxiv.org/abs/ astro-ph/0603214.
22. This work was supported by NASA's Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program (W.R.W.) and NSF's Planetary Astronomy Program (R.M.C.). We thank S. A. Stem for communicating discovery results of Pluto's new moons just before publication and the referees for thoughtful comments.