PTYS/ASTR 553: Useful links

Numerical methods
Numerical Recipes Homepage
Numerical Recipes-old version of the book (fortran 77)

Simulations and/or animations
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Image:3body_problem_figure6.gif
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~megraw/CR3BP_html/cr3bp_fixed.html>
http://www.physics.cornell.edu/sethna/teaching/sss/jupiter/jupiter.htm
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/astro/galaxy/Galaxy.html

Lagrange points
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/lagrange.html
http://www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/cornish/lagrange.pdf
Interplanetary SuperHighway (IPS)
Quasi-periodic orbits around L1,L2,L3
Halo orbits
SOHO
Comet transport by Jupiter? (news-sep 2009)

Tutorial articles on planetary perturbation analysis
Lorentz and Gravitational resonances [Hamilton, D. (1994)]: section 3 provides a good description of the symmetries of the "disturbing function"
Orbital resonances and chaos in the solar system [Malhotra, R. (1998)]






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