From: henry@spsystems.net   
      
   In article <3F9D5F8F.8040008@tabletoptelephone.com>,   
   Hop David   wrote:   
   >> Unfortunately, that *is* the group in question.  There are zones within   
   >> the asteroid belt where resonances with Jupiter make orbits evolve very   
   >> rapidly and chaotically.  When an asteroid's orbit, evolving very slowly   
   >> by more subtle processes, enters one of those zones...   
   >   
   >The zones you speak of are the Kirkwood gaps?   
      
   Some of the resonances show as the Kirkwood gaps.  Some are less obvious;   
   there is more than one kind of resonance.   
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