Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets [1 ed.] 038730777X, 9780387685779, 9780387307770

Table of contents :
Table of contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 9
Authors' preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
List of illustrations......Page 17
The importance of being Lucretius......Page 22
Eccentric Kepler......Page 25
Tyge the astrologer......Page 30
Giants' shoulders......Page 32
Perturbations......Page 34
Drawing orbits......Page 36
Neptune's karma......Page 39
Planets on a diet......Page 41
Gone with the tides......Page 42
Celestial mechanics gets the blues......Page 45
Lagrange in equilibrium......Page 48
Periodic orbits......Page 51
Mapping chaos......Page 52
KAM and all that......Page 55
Inside the rings of Saturn......Page 58
A flash in the night......Page 59
Heavenly resonances......Page 63
Commensurable motions......Page 66
Greeks and Trojans......Page 68
Famous affairs......Page 71
The chance of chaos......Page 73
Colombo's egg......Page 74
Spin and orbit......Page 78
The dark side of the Moon......Page 81
Tidal friction......Page 84
Geostationary satellites......Page 88
A portrait of Mercury......Page 91
Tidy chaos......Page 92
The obliquity of the planets......Page 93
Raiders of the lost equinoxes......Page 95
Is the land of Atlantis really lost?......Page 97
Astronology......Page 99
The ubiquity of chaos......Page 102
Propagating orbits......Page 105
Planets in numbers......Page 107
The stability of the Solar System......Page 110
Close encounters......Page 113
Raining comets......Page 116
The long journey of meteorites......Page 118
Jurassic asteroids......Page 122
From zero to infinity......Page 126
Collisions in the Solar System......Page 129
Astroblames......Page 131
Near-Earth asteroids......Page 134
Impact probability......Page 139
Don't panic!......Page 142
Mitigation......Page 145
The cycles of Selene......Page 148
Acts of the Gods......Page 152
Eclipsed by the Saros......Page 155
Lunar theories......Page 156
Holidays in Elatina......Page 159
Moonshadows......Page 160
Highways to the Moon......Page 163
Space in flight......Page 168
Orbiting the Earth......Page 171
Space debris......Page 174
The accessibility of celestial bodies......Page 177
Going deep space......Page 182
Highways to the planets......Page 187
Last but not least......Page 188
Ringed worlds......Page 192
Forbidden regions......Page 197
Jovian halos......Page 199
Sightseeing Saturn......Page 200
Elliptic rings......Page 201
Arcs in the sky......Page 202
Once upon a ring......Page 204
Beyond Pluto......Page 206
Smiley and the others......Page 209
Big Brothers are watching us......Page 212
Chiron and the Centaurs......Page 213
Planet X......Page 216
Beyond the Solar System......Page 218
Hunting for exoplanets......Page 221
A Galactic zoo......Page 225
Astrobiology......Page 228
Back to the future......Page 230
Appendix 1 Planetary data......Page 233
Appendix 2 Planetary satellite data......Page 234
Appendix 3 Space missions......Page 237
Appendix 4 Internet resources......Page 242
C......Page 246
I......Page 247
N......Page 248
P......Page 249
S......Page 250
Y......Page 251
Bibliography......Page 252
C......Page 254
E......Page 255
J......Page 256
M......Page 257
R......Page 258
V......Page 259
Z......Page 260
Colour plates......Page 261

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Alessandra Celletti and Ettore Perozzi

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