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The effect of solar system chaos on small bodies, such as comets and asteroids, is quite different from that experienced by the major planets. It is more obvious in the motion of the large number of small bodies in the planetary region. Thus, the existence of different groups of comets and asteroids is due to the different qualities of the various resonances — mean motion resonances, secular resonances and three-body resonances — but especially because of resonance overlap. Moreover, chaotic motion has also been found in the motion of the planets and appears to be present on even a larger level in extra-solar planetary systems.
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Dvorak, R. (2003). Chaos in Solar System Dynamics. In: Contopoulos, G., Voglis, N. (eds) Galaxies and Chaos. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 626. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45040-5_34
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