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Volume 89, Issue 1

1 July 2002
On the Cover

Plot of the orbit of comet Oterma in a Sun-Jupiter rotating frame, showing on the right a bottleneck region near Jupiter. In a new study, a statistical method used in chemical reaction dynamics is applied to problems in celestial mechanics, suggesting a useful alternative to large-scale numerical simulations.

From the article:

Statistical Theory of Asteroid Escape Rates
Charles Jaffé, Shane D. Ross, Martin W. Lo, Jerrold Marsden, David Farrelly, and T. Uzer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 011101 (2002)

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