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Planetary elements for 10 000 000 years

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In 1950 Brouwer and van Woerkom published a secular theory of the variations of the planetary elements in analytical form. In the present paper we provide a graphical representation of this theory in the form of element plots for a time span of ten million years.

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Cohen, C.J., Hubbard, E.C. & Oesterwinter, C. Planetary elements for 10 000 000 years. Celestial Mechanics 7, 438–448 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01227509

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