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Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:36:17 -0500 From: Ron Baalke <info@jpl.nasa.gov> To: mchris@value.net Subject: Chaos Theory Explains Origin Of New Moons Organization: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2003/188

Chaos theory explains origin of new moons University of Bristol (United Kingdom) May 15, 2003

The ability to understand how small bodies such as moons switch from orbiting the Sun to orbiting a planet has long remained one of the outstanding problems of planetary science. A paper published in Nature on 15 May shows how this problem has been resolved using chaos theory, enabling scientists to predict where astronomers might search for new moons orbiting the giant planets.

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