Low energy trajectories and chaos: applications to astrodynamics and dynamical astronomy.
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.
Belbruno
Edward
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Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Peyton Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1000, USA. belbruno@princeton.edu