514107 Kaʻepaokaʻāwela
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514107 Kaʻepaokaʻāwela, provisionally designated 2015 BZ509 and nicknamed Bee-Zed, is a small asteroid, approximately 3 km in diameter, in a resonant, co-orbital motion with Jupiter. It is an unusual
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Orbital resonance
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In celestial mechanics, orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods are related by a ratio of sma
514107 Kaʻepaokaʻāwela
…Observatory on the island of Maui, United States. Kaʻepaokaʻāwela is the first example of an asteroid with a retrograde orbit that is also in a stable 1:–1 resonance with any of the planets at the same time. This type of resonance had only been studied a few years before the object's discovery. One study suggests…
Spiral density waves in Saturn's A Ring excited by resonances with inner moons. Such waves propagate away from the planet (towards upper left). The large set of waves just below center is due to the 6:5 resonance with Janus.
The eccentric Titan Ringlet in the Columbo Gap of Saturn's C Ring (center) and the inclined orbits of resonant particles in the bending wave just inside it have apsidal and nodal precessions, respectively, commensurate with Titan's mean motion.
Depiction of the resonance between Neptune's moons Naiad (whose orbital motion is shown in red) and Thalassa, in a view that co-rotates with the latter