Wisdom: chaotic behavior and the 3/1 Kirkwood gap

What changed

Compared mappings with integrations and matched chaotic-zone boundary to the observed 3/1 gap.

Scientific scope

The record is the sole-author 1983 Icarus paper. The 1982 mapping paper, later Solar-System integrations and broader claims that all Kirkwood gaps share the same mechanism remain separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the sole-author 1983 Icarus paper. The 1982 mapping paper, later Solar-System integrations and broader claims that all Kirkwood gaps share the same mechanism remain separate.

Contributors

• Jack Wisdom · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• NASA record for Wisdom’s Kirkwood-gap paper
• Jack Wisdom author copy of the Kirkwood-gap paper

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