Orbital Resonances in the Solar Nebula:
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Renu Malhotra
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A planetesimal moving in the Solar Nebula experiences an aerodynamic drag which causes its orbit to circularize and shrink. However, resonant perturbations from a protoplanet interior to the planetesimal's orbit can counteract both the orbital decay and the damping of the eccentricity: the planetesi