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Numerical Evidence that the Motion of Pluto is Chaotic

The Digital Orrery has been used to perform an integration of the motion of the outer planets for 845 million years. This integration indicates that the long-term motion of the planet Pluto is chaotic. Nearby trajectories diverge exponentially with an e-folding time of only about 20 million years.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6038
Date01 April 1988
CreatorsSussman, Gerald Jay, Wisdom, Jack
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format18 p., 2648967 bytes, 1066764 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf
RelationAIM-1039

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