The plane of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt

COLLANDER-BROWN, S., MELITA, M.D., WILLIAMS, I.P., AND FITZSIMMONS, A.

ICARUS

Año: 2003 vol. 162 p. 22 - 26

0019-1035

We examine possible locations for the primordial disk of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt (EKB), using several subsets of the known objects as markers of the total mass distribution. Using a secular perturbation theory, we find that the primordial plane of the EKB could have remained thin enough to escape detection only if it is clustered very closely about the invariable plane of the Solar System.