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Stability of the Solar System
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
Abstract
This paper reviews the present status of research on the problem of stability of satellite and planetary systems in general. In addition new results concerning the stability of the solar system are described. Hill's method is generalized and related to bifurcation (or catastrophe) theory. The general and the restricted problems of three bodies are used as dynamical models. A quantitative measure of stability is introduced by establishing the differences between the actual behavior of the dynamical system as given today and its critical state. The marginal stability of the lunar orbit is discussed as well as the behavior of the Sun-Jupiter-Saturn system. Numerical values representing the measure of stability of several components of the solar system are given, indicating in the majority of cases bounded behavior.
- Type
- Part I: Stability, N- and 3-Body Problems, Variable Mass
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 81: Dynamics of the Solar System , 1979 , pp. 7 - 15
- Copyright
- Copyright © Reidel 1979