ontheotherhand，inhisaccuratesemi-analyticalsecularperturbationtheory(laskar1988)，laskarfindsthatlargeandirregularvariationscanappearintheeccentricitiesandinclinationsoftheterrestrialplanets，especiallyofmercuryandmarsonatime-scaleofseveral109yr(laskar1996).theresultsoflaskar'ssecularperturbationtheoryshouldbeconfirmedandinvestigatedbyfullynumericalintegrations.
inthispaperwepresentpreliminaryresultsofsixlong-termnumericalintegrationsonallnineplanetaryorbits，coveringaspanofseveral109yr，andoftwootherintegrationscoveringaspanof±5×1010yr.thetotalelapsedtimeforallintegrationsismorethan5yr，usingseveraldedicatedpcsandworkstations.oneofthefundamentalconclusionsofourlong-termintegrationsisthatsolarsystemplanetarymotionseemstobestableintermsofthehillstabilitymentionedabove，atleastoveratime-spanof±4gyr.actually，inournumericalintegrationsthesystemwasfarmorestablethanwhatisdefinedbythehillstabilitycriterion:notonlydidnocloseencounterhappenduringtheintegrationperiod，butalsoalltheplanetaryorbitalelementshavebeenconfinedinanarrowregionbothintimeandfrequencydomain，thoughplanetarymotionsarestochastic.sincethepurposeofthispaperistoexhibitandoverviewtheresultsofourlong-termnumericalintegrations，weshowtypicalexamplefiguresasevidenceoftheverylong-termstabilityofsolarsystemplanetarymotion.forreaderswhohavemorespecificanddeeperinterestsinournumericalresults，wehavepreparedawebpage(access)，whereweshowraworbitalelements，theirlow-passfilteredresults，variationofdelaunayelementsandangularmomentumdeficit，andresultsofoursimpletime–frequencyanalysisonallofourintegrations.
insection2webrieflyexplainourdynamicalmodel，numericalmethodandinitialconditionsusedinourintegrations.section3isdevotedtoadescriptionofthequickresultsofthenumericalintegrations.verylong-termstabilityofsolarsystemplanetarymotionisapparentbothinplanetarypositionsandorbitalelements.aroughestimationofnumericalerrorsisalsogiven.section4goesontoadiscussionofthelongest-termvariationofplanetaryorbitsusingalow-passfilterandincludesadiscussionofangularmomentumdeficit.insection5，wepresentasetofnumericalintegrationsfortheouterfiveplanetsthatspans±5×1010yr.insection6wealsodiscussthelong-termstabilityoftheplanetarymotionanditspossiblecause.
2descriptionofthenumericalintegrations
（本部分涉及比較複雜的積分計算，作者君就不貼上來了，貼上來了起點也不一定能成功顯示。）
2.3numericalmethod
weutilizeasecond-orderwisdom–holmansymplecticmapasourmainintegrationmethod(wisdom&holman1991;kinoshita，yoshida&nakai1991)withaspecialstart-upproceduretoreducethetruncationerrorofanglevariables，‘warmstart’(saha&tremaine1992，1994).
thestepsizeforthenumericalintegrationsis8dthroughoutallintegrationsofthenineplanets(n±1，2，3)，whichisabout1/11oftheorbitalperiodoftheinnermostplanet(mercury).asforthedeterminationofstepsize，wepartlyfollowthepreviousnumericalintegrationofallnineplanetsinsussman&wisdom(1988，7.2d)andsaha&tremaine(1994，225/32d).weroundedthedecimalpartofthetheirstepsizesto8tomakethestepsizeamultipleof2inordertoreducetheaccumulationofround-offerrorinthecomputationprocesses.inrelationtothis，wisdom&holman(1991)performednumericalintegrationsoftheouterfiveplanetaryorbitsusingthesymplecticmapwithastepsizeof400d，1/10.83oftheorbitalperiodofjupiter.theirresultseemstobeaccurateenough，whichpartlyjustifiesourmethodofdeterminingthestepsize.however，sincetheeccentricityofjupiter(∼0.05)ismuchsmallerthanthatofmercury(∼0.2)，weneedsomecarewhenwecomparetheseintegrationssimplyintermsofstepsizes.
intheintegrationoftheouterfiveplanets(f±)，wefixedthestepsizeat400d.
weadoptgauss'fandgfunctionsinthesymplecticmaptogetherwiththethird-orderhalleymethod(danby1992)asasolverforkeplerequations.thenumberofmaximumiterationswesetinhalley'smethodis15，buttheyneverreachedthemaximuminanyofourintegrations.
theintervalofthedataoutputis200000d(∼547yr)forthecalculationsofallnineplanets(n±1，2，3)，andabout8000000d(∼21903yr)fortheintegrationoftheouterfiveplanets(f±).
althoughnooutputfilteringwasdonewhenthenumericalintegrationswereinprocess，weappliedalow-passfiltertotheraworbitaldataafterwehadcompletedallthecalculations.seesection4.1formoredetail.
2.4errorestimation
2.4.1relativeerrorsintotalenergyandangularmomentum
accordingtooneofthebasicpropertiesofsymplecticintegrators，whichconservethephysicallyconservativequantitieswell(totalorbitalenergyandangularmomentum)，ourlong-termnumericalintegrationsseemtohavebeenperformedwithverysmallerrors.theaveragedrelativeerrorsoftotalenergy(∼10−9)andoftotalangularmomentum(∼10−11)haveremainednearlyconstantthroughouttheintegrationperiod(fig.1).thespecialstartupprocedure，warmstart，wouldhavereducedtheaveragedrelativeerrorintotalenergybyaboutoneorderofmagnitudeormore.
relativenumericalerrorofthetotalangularmomentumδa/a0andthetotalenergyδe/e0inournumericalintegrationsn±1，2，3，whereδeandδaaretheabsolutechangeofthetotalenergyandtotalangularmomentum，respectively，ande0anda0aretheirinitialvalues.thehorizontalunitisgyr.
notethatdifferentoperatingsystems，differentmathematicallibraries，anddifferenthardwarearchitecturesresultindifferentnumericalerrors，throughthevariationsinround-offerrorhandlingandnumericalalgorithms.intheupperpaneloffig.1，wecanrecognizethissituationinthesecularnumericalerrorinthetotalangularmomentum，whichshouldberigorouslypreserveduptomachine-εprecision.
2.4.2errorinplanetarylongitudes
sincethesymplecticmapspreservetotalenergyandtotalangularmomentumofn-bodydynamicalsystemsinherentlywell，thedegreeoftheirpreservationmaynotbeagoodmeasureoftheaccuracyofnumericalintegrations，especiallyasameasureofthepositionalerrorofplanets，theerrorinplanetarylongitudes.toestimatethenumericalerrorintheplanetarylongitudes，weperformedthefollowingprocedures.wecomparedtheresultofourmainlong-termintegrationswithsometestintegrations，whichspanmuchshorterperiodsbutwithmuchhigheraccuracythanthemainintegrations.forthispurpose，weperformedamuchmoreaccurateintegrationwithastepsizeof0.125d(1/64ofthemainintegrations)spanning3×105yr，startingwiththesameinitialconditionsasinthen−1integration.weconsiderthatthistestintegrationprovidesuswitha‘pseudo-true’solutionofplanetaryorbitalevolution.next，wecomparethetestintegrationwiththemainintegration，n−1.fortheperiodof3×105yr，weseeadifferenceinmeananomaliesoftheearthbetweenthetwointegrationsof∼0.52°(inthecaseofthen−1integration).thisdifferencecanbeextrapolatedtothevalue∼8700°，about25rotationsofearthafter5gyr，sincetheerroroflongitudesincreaseslinearlywithtimeinthesymplecticmap.similarly，thelongitudeerrorofplutocanbeestimatedas∼12°.thisvalueforplutoismuchbetterthantheresultinkinoshita&nakai(1996)wherethedifferenceisestimatedas∼60°.
3numericalresults–i.glanceattherawdata
inthissectionwebrieflyreviewthelong-termstabilityofplanetaryorbitalmotionthroughsomesnapshotsofrawnumericaldata.theorbitalmotionofplanetsindicateslong-termstabilityinallofournumericalintegrations:noorbitalcrossingsnorcloseencountersbetweenanypairofplanetstookplace.
3.1generaldescriptionofthestabilityofplanetaryorbits
first，webrieflylookatthegeneralcharacterofthelong-termstabilityofplanetaryorbits.ourinterestherefocusesparticularlyontheinnerfourterrestrialplanetsforwhichtheorbitaltime-scalesaremuchshorterthanthoseoftheouterfiveplanets.aswecanseeclearlyfromtheplanarorbitalconfigurationsshowninfigs2and3，orbitalpositionsoftheterrestrialplanetsdifferlittlebetweentheinitialandfinalpartofeachnumericalintegration，whichspansseveralgyr.thesolidlinesdenotingthepresentorbitsoftheplanetsliealmostwithintheswarmofdotseveninthefinalpartofintegrations(b)and(d).thisindicatesthatthroughouttheentireintegrationperiodthealmostregularvariationsofplanetaryorbitalmotionremainnearlythesameastheyareatpresent.
verticalviewofthefourinnerplanetaryorbits(fromthez-axisdirection)attheinitialandfinalpartsoftheintegrationsn±1.theaxesunitsareau.thexy-planeissettotheinvariantplaneofsolarsystemtotalangularmomentum.(a)theinitialpartofn+1(t=0to0.0547×109yr).(b)thefinalpartofn+1(t=4.9339×108to4.9886×109yr).(c)theinitialpartofn−1(t=0to−0.0547×109yr).(d)thefinalpartofn−1(t=−3.9180×109to−3.9727×109yr).ineachpanel，atotalof23684pointsareplottedwithanintervalofabout2190yrover5.47×107yr.solidlinesineachpaneldenotethepresentorbitsofthefourterrestrialplanets(takenfromde245).
thevariationofeccentricitiesandorbitalinclinationsfortheinnerfourplanetsintheinitialandfinalpartoftheintegrationn+1isshowninfig.4.asexpected，thecharacterofthevariationofplanetaryorbitalelementsdoesnotdiffersignificantlybetweentheinitialandfinalpartofeachintegration，atleastforvenus，earthandmars.theelementsofmercury，especiallyitseccentricity，seemtochangetoasignificantextent.thisispartlybecausetheorbitaltime-scaleoftheplanetistheshortestofalltheplanets，whichleadstoamorerapidorbitalevolutionthanotherplanets;theinnermostplanetmaybenearesttoinstability.thisresultappearstobeinsomeagreementwithlaskar's(1994，1996)expectationsthatlargeandirregularvariationsappearintheeccentricitiesandinclinationsofmercuryonatime-scaleofseveral109yr.however，theeffectofthepossibleinstabilityoftheorbitofmercurymaynotfatallyaffecttheglobalstabilityofthewholeplanetarysystemowingtothesmallmassofmercury.wewillmentionbrieflythelong-termorbitalevolutionofmercurylaterinsection4usinglow-passfilteredorbitalelements.
theorbitalmotionoftheouterfiveplanetsseemsrigorouslystableandquiteregularoverthistime-span(seealsosection5).
3.2time–frequencymaps
althoughtheplanetarymotionexhibitsverylong-termstabilitydefinedasthenon-existenceofcloseencounterevents，thechaoticnatureofplanetarydynamicscanchangetheoscillatoryperiodandamplitudeofplanetaryorbitalmotiongraduallyoversuchlongtime-spans.evensuchslightfluctuationsoforbitalvariationinthefrequencydomain，particularlyinthecaseofearth，canpotentiallyhaveasignificanteffectonitssurfaceclimatesystemthroughsolarinsolationvariation(cf.berger1988).
togiveanoverviewofthelong-termchangeinperiodicityinplanetaryorbitalmotion，weperformedmanyfastfouriertransformations(ffts)alongthetimeaxis，andsuperposedtheresultingperiodgramstodrawtwo-dimensionaltime–frequencymaps.thespecificapproachtodrawingthesetime–frequencymapsinthispaperisverysimple–muchsimplerthanthewaveletanalysisorlaskar's(1990，1993)frequencyanalysis.
dividethelow-passfilteredorbitaldataintomanyfragmentsofthesamelength.thelengthofeachdatasegmentshouldbeamultipleof2inordertoapplythefft.
eachfragmentofthedatahasalargeoverlappingpart:forexample，whentheithdatabeginsfromt=tiandendsatt=ti+t，thenextdatasegmentrangesfromti+δt≤ti+δt+t，whereδt?t.wecontinuethispisionuntilwereachacertainnumbernbywhichtn+treachesthetotalintegrationlength.
weapplyanffttoeachofthedatafragments，andobtainnfrequencydiagrams.
ineachfrequencydiagramobtainedabove，thestrengthofperiodicitycanbereplacedbyagrey-scale(orcolour)chart.
weperformthereplacement，andconnectallthegrey-scale(orcolour)chartsintoonegraphforeachintegration.thehorizontalaxisofthesenewgraphsshouldbethetime，thestartingtimesofeachfragmentofdata(ti，wherei=1，…，n).theverticalaxisrepresentstheperiod(orfrequency)oftheoscillationoforbitalelements.
wehaveadoptedanfftbecauseofitsoverwhelmingspeed，sincetheamountofnumericaldatatobedecomposedintofrequencycomponentsisterriblyhuge(severaltensofgbytes).
atypicalexampleofthetime–frequencymapcreatedbytheaboveproceduresisshowninagrey-scalediagramasfig.5，whichshowsthevariationofperiodicityintheeccentricityandinclinationofearthinn+2integration.infig.5，thedarkareashowsthatatthetimeindicatedbythevalueontheabscissa，theperiodicityindicatedbytheordinateisstrongerthaninthelighterareaaroundit.wecanrecognizefromthismapthattheperiodicityoftheeccentricityandinclinationofearthonlychangesslightlyovertheentireperiodcoveredbythen+2integration.thisnearlyregulartrendisqualitativelythesameinotherintegrationsandforotherplanets，althoughtypicalfrequenciesdifferplanetbyplanetandelementbyelement.
4.2long-termexchangeoforbitalenergyandangularmomentum
wecalculateverylong-periodicvariationandexchangeofplanetaryorbitalenergyandangularmomentumusingfiltereddelaunayelementsl，g，h.gandhareequivalenttotheplanetaryorbitalangularmomentumanditsverticalcomponentperunitmass.lisrelatedtotheplanetaryorbitalenergyeperunitmassase=−μ2/2l2.ifthesystemiscompletelylinear，theorbitalenergyandtheangularmomentumineachfrequencybinmustbeconstant.non-linearityintheplanetarysystemcancauseanexchangeofenergyandangularmomentuminthefrequencydomain.theamplitudeofthelowest-frequencyoscillationshouldincreaseifthesystemisunstableandbreaksdowngradually.however，suchasymptomofinstabilityisnotprominentinourlong-termintegrations.
infig.7，thetotalorbitalenergyandangularmomentumofthefourinnerplanetsandallnineplanetsareshownforintegrationn+2.theupperthreepanelsshowthelong-periodicvariationoftotalenergy(denotedase-e0)，totalangularmomentum(g-g0)，andtheverticalcomponent(h-h0)oftheinnerfourplanetscalculatedfromthelow-passfiltereddelaunay0，g0，h0denotetheinitialvaluesofeachquantity.theabsolutedifferencefromtheinitialvaluesisplottedinthepanels.thelowerthreepanelsineachfigureshowe-e0，g-g0andh-h0ofthetotalofnineplanets.thefluctuationshowninthelowerpanelsisvirtuallyentirelyaresultofthemassivejovianplanets.
comparingthevariationsofenergyandangularmomentumoftheinnerfourplanetsandallnineplanets，itisapparentthattheamplitudesofthoseoftheinnerplanetsaremuchsmallerthanthoseofallnineplanets:theamplitudesoftheouterfiveplanetsaremuchlargerthanthoseoftheinnerplanets.thisdoesnotmeanthattheinnerterrestrialplanetarysubsystemismorestablethantheouterone:thisissimplyaresultoftherelativesmallnessofthemassesofthefourterrestrialplanetscomparedwiththoseoftheouterjovianplanets.anotherthingwenoticeisthattheinnerplanetarysubsystemmaybecomeunstablemorerapidlythantheouteronebecauseofitsshorterorbitaltime-scales.thiscanbeseeninthepanelsdenotedasinner4infig.7wherethelonger-periodicandirregularoscillationsaremoreapparentthaninthepanelsdenotedastotal9.actually，thefluctuationsintheinner4panelsaretoalargeextentasaresultoftheorbitalvariationofthemercury.however，wecannotneglectthecontributionfromotherterrestrialplanets，aswewillseeinsubsequentsections.
4.4long-termcouplingofseveralneighbouringplanetpairs
letusseesomeinpidualvariationsofplanetaryorbitalenergyandangularmomentumexpressedbythelow-passfiltereddelaunayelements.figs10and11showlong-termevolutionoftheorbitalenergyofeachplanetandtheangularmomentuminn+1andn−2integrations.wenoticethatsomeplanetsformapparentpairsintermsoforbitalenergyandangularmomentumexchange.inparticular，venusandearthmakeatypicalpair.inthefigures，theyshownegativecorrelationsinexchangeofenergyandpositivecorrelationsinexchangeofangularmomentum.thenegativecorrelationinexchangeoforbitalenergymeansthatthetwoplanetsformacloseddynamicalsystemintermsoftheorbitalenergy.thepositivecorrelationinexchangeofangularmomentummeansthatthetwoplanetsaresimultaneouslyundercertainlong-termperturbations.candidatesforperturbersarejupiterandsaturn.alsoinfig.11，wecanseethatmarsshowsapositivecorrelationintheangularmomentumvariationtothevenus–earthsystem.mercuryexhibitscertainnegativecorrelationsintheangularmomentumversusthevenus–earthsystem，whichseemstobeareactioncausedbytheconservationofangularmomentumintheterrestrialplanetarysubsystem.
itisnotclearatthemomentwhythevenus–earthpairexhibitsanegativecorrelationinenergyexchangeandapositivecorrelationinangularmomentumexchange.wemaypossiblyexplainthisthroughobservingthegeneralfactthattherearenoseculartermsinplanetarysemimajoraxesuptosecond-orderperturbationtheories(cf.brouwer&clemence1961;boccaletti&pucacco1998).thismeansthattheplanetaryorbitalenergy(whichisdirectlyrelatedtothesemimajoraxisa)mightbemuchlessaffectedbyperturbingplanetsthanistheangularmomentumexchange(whichrelatestoe).hence，theeccentricitiesofvenusandearthcanbedisturbedeasilybyjupiterandsaturn，whichresultsinapositivecorrelationintheangularmomentumexchange.ontheotherhand，thesemimajoraxesofvenusandeartharelesslikelytobedisturbedbythejovianplanets.thustheenergyexchangemaybelimitedonlywithinthevenus–earthpair，whichresultsinanegativecorrelationintheexchangeoforbitalenergyinthepair.
asfortheouterjovianplanetarysubsystem，jupiter–saturnanduranus–neptuneseemtomakedynamicalpairs.however，thestrengthoftheircouplingisnotasstrongcomparedwiththatofthevenus–earthpair.
5±5×1010-yrintegrationsofouterplanetaryorbits
sincethejovianplanetarymassesaremuchlargerthantheterrestrialplanetarymasses，wetreatthejovianplanetarysystemasanindependentplanetarysystemintermsofthestudyofitsdynamicalstability.hence，weaddedacoupleoftrialintegrationsthatspan±5×1010yr，includingonlytheouterfiveplanets(thefourjovianplanetspluspluto).theresultsexhibittherigorousstabilityoftheouterplanetarysystemoverthislongtime-span.orbitalconfigurations(fig.12)，andvariationofeccentricitiesandinclinations(fig.13)showthisverylong-termstabilityoftheouterfiveplanetsinboththetimeandthefrequencydomains.althoughwedonotshowmapshere，thetypicalfrequencyoftheorbitaloscillationofplutoandtheotherouterplanetsisalmostconstantduringtheseverylong-termintegrationperiods，whichisdemonstratedinthetime–frequencymapsonourwebpage.
inthesetwointegrations，therelativenumericalerrorinthetotalenergywas∼10−6andthatofthetotalangularmomentumwas∼10−10.
5.1resonancesintheneptune–plutosystem
kinoshita&nakai(1996)integratedtheouterfiveplanetaryorbitsover±5.5×109yr.theyfoundthatfourmajorresonancesbetweenneptuneandplutoaremaintainedduringthewholeintegrationperiod，andthattheresonancesmaybethemaincausesofthestabilityoftheorbitofpluto.themajorfourresonancesfoundinpreviousresearchareasfollows.inthefollowingdescription，λdenotesthemeanlongitude，Ωisthelongitudeoftheascendingnodeandϖisthelongitudeofperihelion.subscriptspandndenoteplutoandneptune.
meanmotionresonancebetweenneptuneandpluto(3:2).thecriticalargumentθ1=3λp−2λn−ϖplibratesaround180°withanamplitudeofabout80°andalibrationperiodofabout2×104yr.
theargumentofperihelionofplutoωp=θ2=ϖp−Ωplibratesaround90°withaperiodofabout3.8×106yr.thedominantperiodicvariationsoftheeccentricityandinclinationofplutoaresynchronizedwiththelibrationofitsargumentofperihelion.thisisanticipatedinthesecularperturbationtheoryconstructedbykozai(1962).
thelongitudeofthenodeofplutoreferredtothelongitudeofthenodeofneptune，θ3=Ωp−Ωn，circulatesandtheperiodofthiscirculationisequaltotheperiodofθ2libration.whenθ3becomeszero，thelongitudesofascendingnodesofneptuneandplutooverlap，theinclinationofplutobecomesmaximum，theeccentricitybecomesminimumandtheargumentofperihelionbecomes90°.whenθ3becomes180°，theinclinationofplutobecomesminimum，theeccentricitybecomesmaximumandtheargumentofperihelionbecomes90°again.williams&benson(1971)anticipatedthistypeofresonance，laterconfirmedbymilani，nobili&carpino(1989).
anargumentθ4=ϖp−ϖn+3(Ωp−Ωn)libratesaround180°withalongperiod，∼5.7×108yr.
inournumericalintegrations，theresonances(i)–(iii)arewellmaintained，andvariationofthecriticalargumentsθ1，θ2，θ3remainsimilarduringthewholeintegrationperiod(figs14–16).however，thefourthresonance(iv)appearstobedifferent:thecriticalargumentθ4alternateslibrationandcirculationovera1010-yrtime-scale(fig.17).thisisaninterestingfactthatkinoshita&nakai's(1995，1996)shorterintegrationswerenotabletodisclose.
6discussion
whatkindofdynamicalmechanismmaintainsthislong-termstabilityoftheplanetarysystem?wecanimmediatelythinkoftwomajorfeaturesthatmayberesponsibleforthelong-termstability.first，thereseemtobenosignificantlower-orderresonances(meanmotionandsecular)betweenanypairamongthenineplanets.jupiterandsaturnareclosetoa5:2meanmotionresonance(thefamous‘greatinequality’)，butnotjustintheresonancezone.higher-orderresonancesmaycausethechaoticnatureoftheplanetarydynamicalmotion，buttheyarenotsostrongastodestroythestableplanetarymotionwithinthelifetimeoftherealsolarsystem.thesecondfeature，whichwethinkismoreimportantforthelong-termstabilityofourplanetarysystem，isthedifferenceindynamicaldistancebetweenterrestrialandjovianplanetarysubsystems(ito&tanikawa1999，2001).whenwemeasureplanetaryseparationsbythemutualhillradii(r_)，separationsamongterrestrialplanetsaregreaterthan26rh，whereasthoseamongjovianplanetsarelessthan14rh.thisdifferenceisdirectlyrelatedtothedifferencebetweendynamicalfeaturesofterrestrialandjovianplanets.terrestrialplanetshavesmallermasses，shorterorbitalperiodsandwiderdynamicalseparation.theyarestronglyperturbedbyjovianplanetsthathavelargermasses，longerorbitalperiodsandnarrowerdynamicalseparation.jovianplanetsarenotperturbedbyanyothermassivebodies.
thepresentterrestrialplanetarysystemisstillbeingdisturbedbythemassivejovianplanets.however，thewideseparationandmutualinteractionamongtheterrestrialplanetsrendersthedisturbanceineffective;thedegreeofdisturbancebyjovianplanetsiso(ej)(orderofmagnitudeoftheeccentricityofjupiter)，sincethedisturbancecausedbyjovianplanetsisaforcedoscillationhavinganamplitudeofo(ej).heighteningofeccentricity，forexampleo(ej)∼0.05，isfarfromsufficienttoprovokeinstabilityintheterrestrialplanetshavingsuchawideseparationas26rh.thusweassumethatthepresentwidedynamicalseparationamongterrestrialplanets(>26rh)isprobablyoneofthemostsignificantconditionsformaintainingthestabilityoftheplanetarysystemovera109-yrtime-span.ourdetailedanalysisoftherelationshipbetweendynamicaldistancebetweenplanetsandtheinstabilitytime-scaleofsolarsystemplanetarymotionisnowon-going.
althoughournumericalintegrationsspanthelifetimeofthesolarsystem，thenumberofintegrationsisfarfromsufficienttofilltheinitialphasespace.itisnecessarytoperformmoreandmorenumericalintegrationstoconfirmandexamineindetailthelong-termstabilityofourplanetarydynamics.
——以上文段引自ito，t.&tanikawa，k.long-termintegrationsandstabilityofplanetaryorbitsinoursolarsystem.mon.not.r.astron.soc.336，483–500(2002)這只是作者君參考的一篇文章，關於太陽系的穩定性。
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