Planets and most asteroids revolve around the Sun in the same direction. But an asteroid that shares Jupiter's orbit has been revolving in the opposite direction for about a million years. See Letter p.687
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Access options
Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals
Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription
$29.99 / 30 days
cancel any time
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 51 print issues and online access
$199.00 per year
only $3.90 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
Notes
References
Wiegert, P., Connors, M. & Veillet, C. Nature 543, 687–689 (2017).
Namouni, F., Christou, A. A. & Murray, C. D. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2506–2509 (1999).
Volk, K. & Malhotra, R. Icarus 224, 66–73 (2013).
Bailey, B. L. & Malhotra, R. Icarus 203, 155–163 (2009).
Fernández, J. A., Gallardo, T. & Young J. D. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 461, 3075–3088 (2016).
Gladman, B. et al. Astrophys. J. 697, L91–L94 (2009).
Jewitt, D. Astron. J. 129, 530–538 (2005).
Minor Planet Center. Minor Planet Circ. Suppl. 567918 (2015).
Morais, M. H. M. & Namouni, F. Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron. 125, 91–106 (2016).
Morais, M. H. M. & Namouni, F. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 436, L30–L34 (2013).
Namouni, F. & Morais, M. H. M. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 446, 1998–2009 (2015).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding authors
Related links
Related links
Related links in Nature Research
Celestial mechanics: Fresh solutions to the four-body problem
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Morais, H., Namouni, F. Reckless orbiting in the Solar System. Nature 543, 635–636 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/543635a
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/543635a
This article is cited by
-
Image classification of retrograde resonance in the planar circular restricted three-body problem
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (2024)
-
Retrograde co-orbital orbits in the Earth–Moon system: planar stability region under solar gravitational perturbation
Astrophysics and Space Science (2021)
-
A study of the 1/2 retrograde resonance: periodic orbits and resonant capture
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (2021)
-
Assessing the risk of potentially hazardous asteroids through mean motion resonances analyses
Astrophysics and Space Science (2019)
-
Coorbital capture at arbitrary inclination
Computational and Applied Mathematics (2018)