Dynamical evolution of planetary systems and the significance of Bode's law.

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Jan 1988

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NATO Advanced Study Institute on Long-Term Dynamical Behaviour of Natural and Artificial N-Body Systems, p. 3 - 12

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Planetary Systems: Evolution, Planetary Systems: Titius-Bode Law, Solar System: Celestial Mechanics

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The authors examine the question of whether an arbitrary configuration of planets in orbit about the sun could evolve by point gravitational interaction to become a very regular system such as the actual solar system. The evolution of a number of sample planetary systems with varying original distributions has been examined to determine the degree of "arbitrariness" allowed to the initial conditions which will yet yield the regularities presently observed in the solar system. This study suggests that only a geometric (or Bode-type) initial distribution of planetary semimajor axes is likely to yield the present (geometric) spacing of the planets of the solar system.

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