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The Quadrantid Stream, Chaos or Not?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Zidian Wu  and
Iwan P Williams
Zidian Wu
Affiliation:
Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS
Iwan P Williams
Affiliation:
Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS

Abstract

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The Quadrantid stream covers a region of space which contains many strong resonances and commensurabilities with the Jovian orbit. We have numerically integrated the orbital evolution of over one hundred actual meteoroids backwards to BC 5000. The evolution is quit complex, but most of the meteoroids are quite well behaved with rapid but smooth changes in the orbital elements. One meteoroid however shows sharp sudden changes in its orbital parameters and these changes are generally indicative of the presence of chaos.

Type
Part VI - Meteors. Zodiacal Cloud. Nebulae
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 152: Chaos, Resonance and Collective Dynamical Phenomena in the Solar System , 1992 , pp. 329 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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