On the instability of Jupiter's Trojans

Icarus

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 328-338

  Marzari, F ^b   Scholl, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036800383     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6904     Document Type: Article

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