Mercury’s Chaotic Secular Evolution as a Subdiffusive Process
Mercury’s Chaotic Secular Evolution as a Subdiffusive Process
Abstract Mercury’s orbit can destabilize, generally resulting in a collision with either Venus or the Sun. Chaotic evolution can cause g 1 to decrease to the approximately constant value of g 5 and create a resonance. Previous work has approximated the variation in g 1 as stochastic diffusion, which leads …