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Urey Prize Lecture - Chaotic dynamics in the solar systemAttention is given to solar system cases in which chaotic solutions of Newton's equations are important, as in chaotic rotation and orbital evolution. Hyperion is noted to be tumbling chaotically; chaotic orbital evolution is suggested to be of fundamental importance to an accounting for the Kirkwood gaps in asteroid distribution and for the phase space boundary of the chaotic zone at the 3/1 mean-motion commensurability with Jupiter. In addition, chaotic trajectories in the 2/1 chaotic zone reach very high eccentricities by a route that carries them to high inclinations temporarily.
Document ID
19880033324
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Wisdom, Jack
(MIT Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1987
Publication Information
Publication: Icarus
Volume: 72
ISSN: 0019-1035
Subject Category
Astronomy
Accession Number
88A20551
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-706
Distribution Limits
Public
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