Mars crossers in the inner belt

Initial population of 120 main-belt asteroids with a = 2.1 - 2.4 AU, R = 5 km, regolith covered, eps = 0.9, A = 0.084. Numerical integration for 150 Myr, three runs R5000m-1, 2 and 3.

Averaging over 10 kyr, Mars crosser = perihelion q < 1.665 AU, 30 asteroids (25%) were discarded, because they became MC before 300 kyr, decay plot with all 120 asteroids - data, GIF, PS, the graph below is renormalized, click to get data, PS


Miroslav Broz, miroslav.broz@email.cz, Dec 28th 1999