title: Transport of Mars-crossing asteroids from the quasi-Hilda region.
abstract: We employ set oriented methods in combination with graph partitioning algorithms to identify key dynamical regions in the Sun-Jupiter-particle three-body system. Transport rates from a region near the 3:2 Hilda resonance into the realm of orbits crossing Mars' orbit are computed. In contrast to common numerical approaches, our technique does not depend on single long term simulations of the underlying model. Thus, our statistical results are particularly reliable since they are not affected by a dynamical behavior which is almost nonergodic (i.e., dominated by strongly almost invariant sets).
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, University of Paderborn, D-33095 Paderborn, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dellnitz
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Junge
authors.forename: Martin W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Lo
authors.forename: Jerrold E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Marsden
authors.forename: Kathrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Padberg
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Preis
authors.forename: Shane D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: Bianca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thiere