The origin of chaos in the orbit of comet 1P/Halley
According to Muñoz-Gutiérrez et al. the orbit of comet 1P/Halley is chaotic with a surprisingly small Lyapunov time-scale of order its orbital period. In this work we analyse the origin of chaos in Halley's orbit and the growth of perturbations, in order to get a better understanding of this un...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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