Long-term behavior of the motion of Pluto over 5.5 billion years

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 165-173

  Kinoshita, Hiroshi ^a   Nakai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS; INTEGRATION; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; PLANETARY MOTION;

EID: 0029750553     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00117514     Document Type: Article

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