The Solar System's extended shelf life

Gregory Laughlin
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Gregory Laughlin: University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA. glaughli@ucsc.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 459, issue 7248, 781-782

Abstract: Simulations show that orbital chaos can lead to collisions between Earth and the inner planets. But Einstein's tweaks to Newton's theory of gravity render these ruinous outcomes unlikely in the next few billion years.

Date: 2009
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