Orateur
Giovanni Valsecchi
(IAPS-INAF)
Description
Close encounters with the giant planets play an important role in the
evolution of the orbits of long period comets, and have been treated in
a number of papers. We revisit the subject in the framework of an
analytic theory of close encounters, that provides useful insight on the
properties of the strong perturbations caused by planetary encounters.
Auteur principal
Giovanni Valsecchi
(IAPS-INAF)
