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1 Astro 7671: Suggested readings in Solar System dynamics compiled by P. D. Nicholson, October 2014 Here is a very idiosyncratic list of significant papers in Solar System dynamics over the past 50 years. I have marked what may be the most interesting to read with an asterisk. I have avoided book chapters and conference proceedings, so that the papers are easier to find on-line. The order is quasi-random, reflecting the nature of my searches on ADS! Thanks to Joe Burns and Jeff Cuzzi for suggestions. REFERENCES Malhotra, R The Origin of Pluto s Orbit: Implications for the Solar System Beyond Neptune. The Astronomical Journal 110, Malhotra, R The origin of Pluto s peculiar orbit. Nature 365, Malhotra, R Three-body effects in the PSR planetary system. The Astrophysical Journal 407, Wolszczan, A Confirmation of Earth-Mass Planets Orbiting the Millisecond Pulsar PSR B Science 264, Malhotra, R Tidal origin of the Laplace resonance and the resurfacing of Ganymede. Icarus 94, Dermott, S. F., Malhotra, R., Murray, C. D Dynamics of the Uranian and Saturnian satellite systems - A chaotic route to melting Miranda?. Icarus 76, Dermott, S. F., Nicholson, P. D Masses of the satellites of Uranus. Nature 319, Dermott, S. F., Murray, C. D The dynamics of tadpole and horseshoe orbits. I - Theory. Icarus 48, Dermott, S. F., Murray, C. D Resonant structure of the asteroid belt. Nature 290, Dermott, S. F., Murray, C. D Nature of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt. Nature 301, Farinella, P., Vokrouhlický, D., Hartmann, W. K Meteorite Delivery via Yarkovsky Orbital Drift. Icarus 132, Farinella, P., Vokrouhlický, D., Hartmann, W. K Erratum: Meteorite Delivery via Yarkovsky Orbital Drift [Volume 132, Number 2, pages (1998)].. Icarus 134,

2 2 Tsiganis, K., Gomes, R., Morbidelli, A., Levison, H. F Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System. Nature 435, Morbidelli, A., Levison, H. F Scenarios for the Origin of the Orbits of the Trans- Neptunian Objects 2000 CR 105 and 2003 VB 12 (Sedna). The Astronomical Journal 128, Gomes, R. S., Morbidelli, A., Levison, H. F Planetary migration in a planetesimal disk: why did Neptune stop at 30 AU?. Icarus 170, Levison, H. F., Morbidelli, A The formation of the Kuiper belt by the outward transport of bodies during Neptune s migration. Nature 426, Gladman, B. J., Migliorini, F., Morbidelli, A., Zappala, V., Michel, P., Cellino, A., Froeschle, C., Levison, H. F., Bailey, M., Duncan, M Dynamical lifetimes of objects injected into asteroid belt resonances. Science 277, Gladman, B Dynamics of systems of two close planets. Icarus 106, 247. Gladman, B., Duncan, M On the fates of minor bodies in the outer solar system. The Astronomical Journal 100, Moons, M., Morbidelli, A Secular resonances inside mean-motion commensurabilities: the 4/1, 3/1, 5/2 and 7/3 cases.. Icarus 114, Murray, N., Hansen, B., Holman, M., Tremaine, S Migrating Planets. Science 279, 69. Dones, L., Tremaine, S On the origin of planetary spins. Icarus 103, Tremaine, S On the origin of the obliquities of the outer planets. Icarus 89, Duncan, M., Quinn, T., Tremaine, S The long-term evolution of orbits in the solar system - A mapping approach. Icarus 82, Quinn, T. R., Tremaine, S., Duncan, M A three million year integration of the earth s orbit. The Astronomical Journal 101, Duncan, M., Quinn, T., Tremaine, S The origin of short-period comets. The Astrophysical Journal 328, L69-L73. Fernandez, J. A., Ip, W.-H Dynamical evolution of a cometary swarm in the outer planetary region. Icarus 47, Kozai, Y Secular perturbations of asteroids with high inclination and eccentricity. The Astronomical Journal 67, Thomas, F., Morbidelli, A The Kozai Resonance in the Outer Solar System and the Dynamics of Long-Period Comets. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 64,

3 3 Laskar, J Secular evolution of the solar system over 10 million years. Astronomy and Astrophysics 198, Laskar, J A numerical experiment on the chaotic behaviour of the solar system. Nature 338, Laskar, J., Quinn, T., Tremaine, S Confirmation of resonant structure in the solar system. Icarus 95, Laskar, J Large-scale chaos in the solar system. Astronomy and Astrophysics 287, L9-L12. Laskar, J Large Scale Chaos and Marginal Stability in the Solar System. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 64, Burns, J. A., Lamy, P. L., Soter, S Radiation forces on small particles in the solar system. Icarus 40, Brož, M., Vokrouhlický, D., Roig, F., Nesvorný, D., Bottke, W. F., Morbidelli, A Yarkovsky origin of the unstable asteroids in the 2/1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 359, Bottke, W. F., Jr., Rubincam, D. P., Burns, J. A Dynamical Evolution of Main Belt Meteoroids: Numerical Simulations Incorporating Planetary Perturbations and Yarkovsky Thermal Forces. Icarus 145, Rubincam, D. P Radiative Spin-up and Spin-down of Small Asteroids. Icarus 148, Goldreich, P On the eccentricity of satellite orbits in the solar system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 126, 257. Goldreich, P., Soter, S Q in the Solar System. Icarus 5, Goldreich, P Tidal De-spin of Planets and Satellites. Nature 208, Goldreich, P Inclination of satellite orbits about an oblate precessing planet. The Astronomical Journal 70, 5. Goldreich, P., Peale, S Spin-orbit coupling in the solar system. The Astronomical Journal 71, 425. Goldreich, P History of the Lunar Orbit. Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics 4, Goldreich, P An explanation of the frequent occurrence of commensurable mean motions in the solar system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 130, Goldreich, P., Toomre, A Some remarks on polar wandering.. Journal of Geophysical Research 74,

4 4 Goldreich, P., Tremaine, S Disk-satellite interactions. The Astrophysical Journal 241, Goldreich, P., Tremaine, S Towards a theory for the Uranian rings. Nature 277, Goldreich, P., Tremaine, S. D The formation of the Cassini division in Saturn s rings. Icarus 34, Goldreich, P., Nicholson, P Revenge of tiny Miranda. Nature 269, Murray, N., Holman, M The role of chaotic resonances in the Solar System. Nature 410, Murray, N., Holman, M The Origin of Chaos in the Outer Solar System. Science 283, Holman, M. J., Murray, N. W Chaos in High-Order Mean Resonances in the Outer Asteroid Belt. The Astronomical Journal 112, Salo, H., Yoder, C. F The dynamics of coorbital satellite systems. Astronomy and Astrophysics 205, Yoder, C. F., Colombo, G., Synnott, S. P., Yoder, K. A Theory of motion of Saturn s coorbiting satellites. Icarus 53, Yoder, C. F., Peale, S. J The tides of Io. Icarus 47, Yoder, C. F How tidal heating in Io drives the Galilean orbital resonance locks. Nature 279, Yoder, C. F Diagrammatic theory of transition of pendulum like systems. Celestial Mechanics 19, Henrard, J Capture into resonance - an extension of the use of adiabatic invariants. Celestial Mechanics 27, Henrard, J., Lamaitre, A A second fundamental model for resonance. Celestial Mechanics 30, Henrard, J., Lemaitre, A A mechanism of formation for the Kirkwood gaps. Icarus 55, Borderies, N., Goldreich, P A simple derivation of capture probabilities for the J + 1 : J and J + 2 : J orbit-orbit resonance problems. Celestial Mechanics 32, Williams, J. G., Sinclair, W. S., Yoder, C. F Tidal acceleration of the moon. Geophysical Research Letters 5, Peale, S. J., Cassen, P., Reynolds, R. T Melting of Io by tidal dissipation. Science 203,

5 5 Peale, S. J On the verification of the planetary system around PSR The Astronomical Journal 105, Thommes,E.W., Duncan, M.J., Levison, H.F TheformationofUranusandNeptune in the Jupiter-Saturn region of the Solar System. Nature 402, Levison, H. F., Duncan, M. J From the Kuiper Belt to Jupiter-Family Comets: The Spatial Distribution of Ecliptic Comets. Icarus 127, Duncan, M. J., Levison, H. F A scattered comet disk and the origin of Jupiter family comets. Science 276, Duncan, M. J., Levison, H. F., Budd, S. M The Dynamical Structure of the Kuiper Belt. The Astronomical Journal 110, Levison, H. F., Duncan, M. J The long-term dynamical behavior of short-period comets. Icarus 108, Milani, A., Knezevic, Z Secular perturbation theory and computation of asteroid proper elements. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 49, Nesvorný, D., Bottke, W. F., Jr., Dones, L., Levison, H. F The recent breakup of an asteroid in the main-belt region. Nature 417, Nesvorný, D., Roig, F Mean Motion Resonances in the Trans-neptunian Region. I. The 2:3 Resonance with Neptune. Icarus 148, Nesvorný, D., Morbidelli, A Three-Body Mean Motion Resonances and the Chaotic Structure of the Asteroid Belt. The Astronomical Journal 116, Nesvorný, D., Morbidelli, A An Analytic Model of Three-Body Mean Motion Resonances. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 71, Nesvorný, D., Ferraz-Mello, S On the Asteroidal Population of the First-Order Jovian Resonances. Icarus 130, Ward, W. R Present obliquity oscillations of Mars - Fourth-order accuracy in orbital E and I. Journal of Geophysical Research 84, Ward, W. R Past orientation of the lunar spin axis. Science 189, Ward, W. R Tidal friction and generalized Cassini s laws in the solar system. The Astronomical Journal 80, Ward, W. R Large-Scale Variations in the Obliquity of Mars. Science 181, Ward, W. R., Hamilton, D. P Tilting Saturn. I. Analytic Model. The Astronomical Journal 128, Hamilton, D. P., Ward, W. R Tilting Saturn. II. Numerical Model. The Astronomical Journal 128,

6 6 Touma, J., Wisdom, J Resonances in the Early Evolution of the Earth-Moon System. The Astronomical Journal 115, Touma, J., Wisdom, J Evolution of the Earth-Moon system. The Astronomical Journal 108, Touma, J., Wisdom, J The chaotic obliquity of Mars. Science 259, Wisdom, J., Peale, S. J., Mignard, F The chaotic rotation of Hyperion. Icarus 58, Sussman, G. J., Wisdom, J Chaotic evolution of the solar system. Science 257, Wisdom, J., Holman, M Symplectic maps for the n-body problem. The Astronomical Journal 102, Sussman, G. J., Wisdom, J Numerical evidence that the motion of Pluto is chaotic. Science 241, Wisdom, J., Tremaine, S Local simulations of planetary rings. The Astronomical Journal 95, Applegate, J. H., Douglas, M. R., Gursel, Y., Sussman, G. J., Wisdom, J The outer solar system for 200 million years. The Astronomical Journal 92, Wisdom, J Chaotic behavior and the origin of the 3/1 Kirkwood gap. Icarus 56, Wisdom, J The origin of the Kirkwood gaps - A mapping for asteroidal motion near the 3/1 commensurability. The Astronomical Journal 87, Wisdom, J The resonance overlap criterion and the onset of stochastic behavior in the restricted three-body problem. The Astronomical Journal 85, Williams, J. G., Boggs, D. H., Yoder, C. F., Ratcliff, J. T., Dickey, J. O Lunar rotational dissipation in solid body and molten core. Journal of Geophysical Research 106, Williams, J. G Asteroid families - an initial search. Icarus 96, Williams, J. G., Faulkner, J The positions of secular resonance surfaces. Icarus 46, This preprint was prepared with the AAS L A TEX macros v5.2.

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