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Low Energy Trajectories and Chaos: Applications to Astrodynamics and Dynamical Astronomy
Author(s) -
BELBRUNO EDWARD
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1370.017
Subject(s) - chaos (operating system) , physics , astronomy , astrophysics , statistical physics , computer science , computer security
A bstract : In recent years the application of methods of chaos theory to astrodynamics has produced new revolutionary types of low energy trajectories in space with important applications. They have uncovered new routes to the Moon demonstrated by various spacecraft—the Japan Hiten in 1991 and the European SMART‐1 in 2004. These applications have also played an important role in a new theory on the origin of the Moon.