Solar System: Stability
Abstract
The question of the stability of the SOLAR SYSTEM was raised with the discovery of Newton's law of gravitation, published in 1687. Since then, for 300 yr mathematicians and astronomers have searched for evidence for the stability of the planetary motions, and this quest led to many mathematical developments, and several successive `proofs' of stability for the solar system: first by Laplace and L...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
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- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE2198L
- Keywords:
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- Solar System;
- Solar System Models and Concepts