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Chaos in Celestial Mechanics
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What is the term used to describe the unpredictable behavior of celestial bodies over long periods of time due to the influence of small perturbations?
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Deterministic Chaos
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Deterministic chaos is a type of chaos that arises from the deterministic equations of motion governing a system, even though the initial conditions may be known with arbitrarily high precision.