Talk:Asteroid belt
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"Ripetute"? I believe this may have been intended to say "reputedly"? At any rate, what do you supposed it is supposed to say? sugarfish 20:50 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
It's an Italian word meaning "repeated". I've changed it to the correct English form. Chirstyn; 1 September, 2003
Asteroid Belt: Origin
Someone had asked elsewhere (I think on the Talk:Asteroid page) whence the term "Asteroid Belt". I'm writing here my research efforts.
- The first paper (according to the NASA ADS) to bear the words "Asteroid Belt" in its title is Dirk Brouwer, The problem of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1963AJ.....68..152B&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d15571), Astronomical Journal, Vol. 68, pp. 152-159, 1963
- The first paper to use "asteroid belt" in its abstract is Frank J. Kerr and Fred L. Whipple, Possible explanations of the secular acceleration of PHOBOS and Jupiter V (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1951AJ.....56R.131K&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d17663), Astronomical Journal, Vol. 56, p. 131, 1951
- No papers whatsoever use the German term "Asteroidengürtel" in their title or abstract (an odd result).
Urhixidur 17:11, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC)
Why a belt?
I've wondered: why exactly are so many of the asteroids arranged in this belt? What was the origin, and why would it tend to form in its present location? Meelar (talk) 18:04, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
- http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980810a.html -- hike395 22:21, 1 May 2005 (UTC)