A rapidly migrating Jupiter mechanism offers crucial new insights into the early evolution of the Solar System. An international team of scientists led by Jian Li from Nanjing University, including NYUAD researcher Nikolaos Georgakarakos and others from the US, Japan, and China, has developed new i
researcher Nikolaos Georgakarakos and others from the US, Japan, and China, has developed new insights that could explain the numerical asymmetry of theTrojan swarms L4 and L5, two groups containing over 10,000 asteroids that orbit along Jupiter’s path around the sun.
For many years, scientists have been aware of the unequal number of asteroids between the L4 and L5 swarms, but the cause of this asymmetry has remained elusive. Despite both swarms currently exhibiting nearly identical stability and survival properties in the Solar System, researchers believe that their differences originated during the earlier stages of the Solar System’s development.
The model simulates the orbital evolution of Jupiter, caused by a planetary orbital instability in the early Solar System. This led to the outward migration of Jupiter at a very high speed; a migration that the researchers hypothesize was the possible cause of the changes in the stability of the nearby asteroid swarms. Future models could expand on this work by including additional aspects of the evolution of the Solar System, which could depict it with improved.
“The characteristics of the current Solar System hold as-yet unsolved mysteries into its formation and early evolution,” said Georgakarakos. “The ability to successfully simulate an event from an early stage of the Solar System’s development and apply those results to modern day questions can also be a key tool as astrophysicists and other researchers work to learn more about the dawn of our world.
Reference: “Asymmetry in the number of L4 and L5 Jupiter Trojans driven by jumping Jupiter” by Jian Li, Zhihong Jeff Xia, Fumi Yoshida, Nikolaos Georgakarakos and Xin Li, 17 January 2023,
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