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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6038 |
| Date | 01 April 1988 |
| Creators | Sussman, Gerald Jay, Wisdom, Jack |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 18 p., 2648967 bytes, 1066764 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
| Relation | AIM-1039 |
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