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. 2011 Mar;11(2):105–114. doi: 10.1089/ast.2010.0475

Table 1.

Precession and Eccentricity Frequencies in the Solar System

  BW1950 La2004 MD1999 1.1aJ
f1 (″/y) −5.201 −5.590 −5.186 −4.351
f2 (″/y) −6.571 −7.050 −6.556 −5.545
f3 (″/y) −18.74 −18.85 −18.66 −17.09
f4 (″/y) −17.63 −17.76 −17.59 −13.75
f5 (″/y) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
f6 (″/y) −25.73 −26.35 −25.98 −36.90
f7 (″/y) −2.902 −2.992 −2.907 −3.149
f8 (″/y) −0.678 −0.692 −0.679 −0.725
Mean f −9.681 −9.910 −9.695 −10.19
g1 (″/y) 5.463 5.590 5.447 4.972
g2 (″/y) 7.344 7.452 7.325 5.962
g3 (″/y) 17.33 17.37 17.27 13.73
g4 (″/y) 18.00 17.92 17.95 16.07
g5 (″/y) 4.296 4.257 3.730 4.330
g6 (″/y) 27.77 28.25 22.50 32.83
g7 (″/y) 2.719 3.088 2.706 2.944
g8 (″/y) 0.633 0.673 0.634 0.677
Mean g 10.44 10.58 9.695 10.19

Column 1: From Brouwer and van Woerkom (1950). Column 2: From Laskar et al. (2004). Column 3: Simple Laplace-Lagrange approach following Murray and Dermott (1999). Column 4: Simple Laplace-Lagrange approach with Jupiter orbital radius increased by 10%.