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The distributions of orbital eccentricities e and inclinations I near the jovian resonances in the asteroid belt show that the observed Kirkwood gaps in the distribution of the semimajor axes were formed after the asteroids had dispersed from the near-coplanar disk in which they accreted.
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Dermott, S., Murray, C. Nature of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt. Nature 301, 201–205 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/301201a0
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