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Marginal stability and chaos in the solar system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Jacques Laskar
Jacques Laskar*
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CNRS–Astronomie et Systèmes Dynamiques, Bureau des Longitudes, 3, rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris

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The motion of the planets is one of the best modelized problems in physics, and its study can be practically reduced to the study of the behavior of the solutions of the well known gravitational equations, neglecting all dissipation, and treating the planets as mass points. In fact, the mathematical complexity of this problem, despites its apparent simplicity is daunting and has been a challenge for mathematicians and astronomers since its formulation three centuries ago.

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Part II - Planets and Moon: Theory and Ephemerides
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 172: Dynamics, Ephemerides and Astrometry of the Solar System , 1996 , pp. 75 - 88
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Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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