Chaotic transfers in three- and four-body systems

摘要

We report on some numerical investigations on the chaotic behavior of certain spatial three- and four-body systems, subject to Newtonian gravitation. These configurations exhibit a new type of dynamics, mixing characteristics of the planar three-body problem and of the oscillatory motion introduced by Sitnikov. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. [References: 5]