🚀 go-pugleaf

jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
: 
: I post this whole mess to sci.space and say "help" because it seems that
: one side in a.f.u. is arguing as follows: _all_ asteroids occur between
: the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.  Therefore Neptune, Pluto, etc. could not
: possibly have captured asteroids because asteroids don't go out that far.

Not quite. My definition of asteriod is: any body that orginated in the
"asteriod belt" (between Mars and Jupiter). I have made no claim as to  
where they can orbit. Jupiter is large enough to cause significant perturbation
to their orbits.

However, it is a long way from Jupiter to Neptune. I am waiting for someone
to post a reference that states that there are asteriods (by my definition)
that orbit that far out.

Bill