Solar and planetary destabilization of the Earth-Moon triangular Lagrangian points

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-27

  Lissauer, Jack J ^a   Chambers, John E ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamics; Earth; Moon; Near Earth objects; Satellites; Trojan asteroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049121122     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.12.024     Document Type: Article

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