53 citations · 644 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for
Showing 2009Show all
2 papers · 1 filter
astro-ph.EP2009★ 1 cited
How do the small planetary satellites rotate?
Alexander V. Melnikov, Ivan I. Shevchenko
We investigate the problem of the typical rotation states of the small planetary satellites from the viewpoint of the dynamical stability of their rotation. We show that the majori…
astro-ph.EP2009★ 43 cited
Hamiltonian intermittency and Lévy flights in the three-body problem
Ivan I. Shevchenko
We consider statistics of the disruption and Lyapunov times in an hierarchical restricted three-body problem. We show that at the edge of disruption the orbital periods and the siz…