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Daniel Kirkwood. The Asteroids; Or Minor Planets Between Mars and Jupiter
The Asteroids; Or Minor Planets Between Mars and Jupiter
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PART I
THE ASTEROIDS, OR MINOR PLANETS BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER
1. Introductory. PLANETARY DISCOVERIES BEFORE THE ASTEROIDS WERE KNOWN
2. Discovery of the First Asteroids
TABLE I. The Asteroids in the Order of their Discovery
3. Remarks on Table I
4. Mode of Discovery
NAMES AND SYMBOLS
5. Magnitudes of the Asteroids
6. The Orbits of the Asteroids
TABLE II. Elements of the Asteroids
PART II
DISCUSSION OF THE FACTS IN TABLE II
1. Extent of the Zone
2. The Small Mass of the Asteroids
3. The Limits of Perihelion Distance
4. Was the Asteroid Zone originally Stable?—Distribution of the Members in Space
COMMENSURABILITY OF PERIODS
I.—The Distance 3.277
II.—The Second Order of Commensurability.—The Distances 2.50 and 3.70
III.—Chasms corresponding to the Third Order.—The Distances 2.82, 3.58, and 3.80
IV.—The Distances 2.95, 3.51,[10] and 3.85, corresponding to the Fourth Order of Commensurability
5. Relations between certain Adjacent Orbits
6. The Eccentricities
7. The Inclinations
8. Longitudes of the Perihelia
9. Distribution of the Ascending Nodes
10. The Periods
11. Origin of the Asteroids
12. Variability of Certain Asteroids
13. The Average Asteroid Orbit
14. The Relation of Short-Period Comets to the Zone of Asteroids
APPENDIX
NOTE A. THE POSSIBLE EXISTENCE OF ASTEROIDS IN UNDISCOVERED RINGS
NOTE B. THE ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE OF COSMICAL RINGS
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