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)