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Michel Hénon
French astronomer
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chaotic orbits
- In celestial mechanics: Chaotic orbits
The French astronomer Michel Hénon and the American astronomer Carl Heiles discovered that when a system exhibiting periodic motion, such as a pendulum, is perturbed by an external force that is also periodic, some initial conditions lead to motions where the state of the system becomes essentially unpredictable…
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