Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early Solar System

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7041, 2005, Pages 462-465

  Morbidelli, A ^a   Levison, H F ^a,b   Tsiganis, K ^a   Gomes, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MCT   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ORBITS; PLANERS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ANGULAR DISTANCES; ASTEROIDS; JUPITER; PLANETESIMALS;

CHAOS THEORY;

ASTEROID; JUPITER; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 19544385601     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03540     Document Type: Article

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