Table 2: Examples of temporary capture orbits. Columns are, from left: Object and capture event designation; group membership; period between first and last entry of Hill sphere ( $t_{\rm orb}$); orbital elements a, e, and i 100 days prior to (first) entry of Hill sphere; change in orbital elements a, e, and i (values at 100 days prior to (first) entry of Hill sphere minus values at 100 days post (last) exit of Hill sphere; mean anomaly at capture ( $M_{\rm cap}$, first entry of Hill sphere) and escape ( $M_{\rm esc}$, last exit of Hill sphere); number of complete revolutions in same sense between (first) entry and (last) escape of Hill sphere, relative to initial mean anomaly in hermeocentric orbit ( $N_{\rm orb}$); rotational sense (retrograde or prograde) of each initiated revolution (temporally from left to right) relative to initial mean anomaly in hermeocentric orbit and to plane of orbit in the Mercury centered reference frame; average period of revolution ( $<P_{\rm orb}>$); minimum distance to Mercury ( $R_{\rm min}$, Mercury radii); and minimal energy of elleptic orbit relative to Mercury ( $E_{\rm min}$). Data from integration 3.
Object Group $t_{\rm orb}$ $a_{\rm pre}$ $e_{\rm pre}$ $i_{\rm pre}$ $\Delta a$ $\Delta e$ $\Delta i$ $M_{\rm cap}$ $M_{\rm esc}$ $N_{\rm orb}$ Sense $<P_{\rm orb}>$ $R_{\rm min}$ $E_{\rm min}$ Note
& event   (d) (AU)   ( $\hbox{$^\circ$ }$) (AU)   ( $\hbox{$^\circ$ }$) ( $\hbox{$^\circ$ }$) ( $\hbox{$^\circ$ }$)     (d) ( $R_{\rm Merc}$) (AU$^{\rm -1}$)  
13.5 II 54.7 0.391 0.208 6.971 -0.01 -0.02 0.08 45 275 2.6 RRR 21.0 1.6 -1480  
13.5 I 11.6 0.379 0.193 7.051 0.01 0.02 -0.09 321 12 0.6 P 19.3 10.6 -898  
13.5 II 32.0 0.391 0.201 6.997 0.01 0.02 0.07 208 257 1.1 PP 29.0 3.1 -1210  
138.1 I 7.3 0.381 0.195 6.808 -0.00 -0.00 0.07 353 25 0.5 P 14.6 18.4 -290  
238.2 I 34.0 0.394 0.216 6.993 -0.00 -0.02 0.17 332 112 1.0 P 34.0 16.7 -621  
769.8 II 87.5 0.379 0.194 6.972 0.00 0.00 0.07 96 214 5.5 PPPPPR 15.9 1.7 -1910  
256.10 II 66.9 0.390 0.211 6.805 -0.01 0.00 0.15 274 286 2.3 RRR 29.1 14.0 -410  
853.3 II 143.5 0.397 0.213 7.154 -0.01 -0.02 -0.16 267 206 4.1 PPRPP 35.0 6.5 -1400 Fig. 6
628.1 II 80.0 0.377 0.190 7.105 0.02 0.0252 -0.24 216 292 3.4 PPPP 23.5 10.2 -1550  
628.1 II 86.5 0.397 0.222 6.877 -0.02 -0.03 0.01 218 301 3.4 PPPP 25.4 15.9 -1540  
51.2 I 33.9 0.390 0.200 6.723 -0.01 -0.00 0.47 150 31 0.6 P $\rightarrow$R 56.5 46.0 -507 Fig. 5


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