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June 2008
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Interplanetary Superhighway

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In the last issue Lewis Dartnell explained how chaos on the brain is not only unavoidable but also beneficial. Now he tells us why the same is true for our solar system and sends us on a journey that has been travelled by comets and spacecraft.

Tags: space exploration : gravity : chaos : astronomy : dynamical system : calculus : physics : Newton : Euler : Copernicus : 3-body problem : Analysis : Lagrange Point : Manifold : centripetal force : Lagrange : Poincare : Interplanetary Superhighway