Stable chaos versus kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt: A comparative study of mean motion resonances

Icarus

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 284-299

  Tsiganis, Kleomenis ^a   Varvoglis, Harry ^a   Hadjidemetriou, John D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Asteroids, dynamics; Celestial mechanics; Chaos

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036798667     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6927     Document Type: Article

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