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Jacques Laskar. This work was responsible for "shattering the long-held view of the clockwork motion of the planets."
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demonstrated for the first time the theoretical reason for the clearing of the
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Jihad Touma; Jack Wisdom (1993). "The
Chaotic Obliquity of Mars".
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Wisdom pioneered the study of chaos in the solar system. His 1981
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which has important implications for the past
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