Published December 2003
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Origin of chaos in the Prometheus–Pandora system
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We demonstrate that the chaotic orbits of Prometheus and Pandora are due to interactions associated with the 121:118 mean motion resonance. Differential precession splits this resonance into a quartet of components equally spaced in frequency. Libration widths of the individual components exceed the splitting resulting in resonance overlap which causes the chaos. A single degree of freedom model captures the essential features of the chaotic dynamics. Mean motions of Prometheus and Pandora wander chaotically in zones of width 1.8 deg yr^−1 and 3.1 deg yr^−1, respectively.
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Author preprint. This research was supported by NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics grant 344-30-53-02 and by NSF grant AST-0098301.Attached Files
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- 2431
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- 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.09.002
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- CaltechAUTHORS:GOLicarus03b
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- 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.09.002 (DOI)
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307259 (URL)
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- NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics
- 344-30-53-02
- NSF
- AST-0098301
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