Эллипс — замкнутая овальная кривая, образованная растягиванием окружности равномерно в одном направлении.

Библиография

1. Притяжение на расстоянии

A. Koyré. An unpublished letter of Robert Hooke to Isaac Newton, Isis 43 (1952) 312–337.

A. Chenciner and R. Montgomery. A remarkable periodic solution of the three-body problem in the case of equal masses, Ann. Math. 152 (2000) 881–901.

Анимированная иллюстрация «Орбита для трех тел»:

C. Simó. New families of solutions in N-body problems, Proc. European Congr. Math., Barcelona, 2000.

E. Oks. Stable conic-helical orbits of planets around binary stars: analytical results, Astrophys. J. 804 (2015) 106.

2. Коллапс Солнечной туманности

H. Levison, K. Kretke, and M. Duncan. Growing the gas-giant planets by the gradual accumulation of pebbles, Nature 524 (2015) 322–324.

I. Stewart. The second law of gravitics and the fourth law of thermodynamics, in From Complexity to Life (ed. N. H. Gregsen), Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 114–150.

K. Batygin and G. Laughlin. On the dynamical stability of the solar system, Astrophys. J. 683 (2008) 1207–1216.

J. Laskar and M. Gastineau. Existence of collisional trajectories of Mercury, Mars and Venus with the Earth, Nature 459 (2009) 817–819.

G. Laughlin. Planetary science: The Solar System’s extended shelf life, Nature 459 (2009) 781–782.

3. Непостоянная Луна

R. C. Paniello, J. M. D. Day, and F. Moynier. Zinc isotopic evidence for the origin of the Moon, Nature 490 (2012) 376–379.

A. G. W. Cameron and W. R. Ward. The origin of the Moon, Abstr. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 7 (1976) 120–122.

W. Benz, W. L. Slattery, and A. G. W. Cameron. The origin of the moon and the single impact hypothesis I, Icarus 66 (1986) 515–535.

W. Benz, W. L. Slattery, and A. G. W. Cameron. The origin of the moon and the single impact hypothesis II, Icarus 71 (1987) 30–45.

W. Benz, A. G. W. Cameron, and H. J. Melosh. The origin of the moon and the single impact hypothesis III, Icarus 81 (1989) 113–131.

R. M. Canup and E. Asphaug. Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth’s formation, Nature 412 (2001) 708–712.

A. Reufer, M. M. M. Meier, and W. Benz. A hit-and-run giant impact scenario, Icarus 221 (2012) 296–299.

J. Zhang, N. Dauphas, A. M. Davis, I. Leya, and A. Fedkin. The proto-Earth as a significant source of lunar material, Nature Geosci. 5 (2012) 251–255.

R. M. Canup, Simulations of a late lunar-forming impact, Icarus 168 (2004) 433–456.

A. Mastrobuono-Battisti, H. B. Perets, and S. N. Raymond. A primordial origin for the compositional similarity between the Earth and the Moon, Nature 520 (2015) 212–215.

4. Космос как часовой механизм

S. F. Dermott. On the origin of commensurabilities in the solar system II: the orbital period relation, Mon. Not. RAS 141 (1968) 363–376.

S. F. Dermott. On the origin of commensurabilities in the solar system III: the resonant structure of the solar system, Mon. Not. RAS 142 (1969) 143–149.

F. Graner and B. Dubrulle. Titius-Bode laws in the solar system. Part I: Scale invariance explains everything, Astron.