Orbital stability of systems of closely-spaced planets

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 381-394

  Smith, Andrew W ^a   Lissauer, Jack J ^b  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Extrasolar planets; Planetary dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749117901     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.027     Document Type: Article

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