| Preface | |
| Chaos in Relativity and Cosmology | p. 1 |
| Bianchi Cosmologies as Dynamical Systems | p. 17 |
| Slow and Fast Diffusion in Asteroid-Belt Resonances: A Review | p. 25 |
| Origin and Evolution of Near Earth Asteroids | p. 39 |
| Small Bodies in the Outer Solar System | p. 51 |
| The Use of Geocentric Variables to Search for Meteroid Streams and Their Parents | p. 55 |
| A Symplectic Mapping Model as a Tool to Understand the Dynamics of 2/1 Resonant Asteroid Motion | p. 65 |
| On Stable Chaos in the Asteroid Belt | p. 77 |
| Explicit Semi-Analytical Theory of Asteroid Motion | p. 87 |
| On the Motion of Trapped Particles in the Vicinity of Corotation Centers | p. 97 |
| Migration of Trans-Neptunian Objects to the Earth | p. 107 |
| Trojans in Stable Chaotic Motion | p. 117 |
| Star Cluster Simulations: the State of the Art | p. 127 |
| Dimensionality of Stable and Unstable Directions in the Gravitational N-Body Problem | p. 139 |
| Distribution of Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy in Self-Consistent Models of Barred Galaxies | p. 149 |
| Regular and Chaotic Motion in Globular Clusters | p. 159 |
| Periodic Orbits around a Massive Straight Segment | p. 169 |
| Escape from a Crisis in Fokker-Planck Models | p. 179 |
| Building Galaxy Models with Schwarzschild Method and Spectral Dynamics | p. 187 |
| Conditional Entropy: a Tool to Explore Phase Space | p. 195 |
| Detection of Ordered and Chaotic Motion using the Dynamical Spectra | p. 211 |
| Cantori, Islands and Asymptotic Curves in the Stickiness Region | p. 221 |
| Parallel/Vector Integration Methods for Dynamical Astronomy | p. 231 |
| Do Average Hamiltonians Exist? | p. 243 |
| Diffusion Character in Four-Dimensional Volume-Preserving Map | p. 249 |
| The Separatrix Algorithmic Map: Application to the Spin-Orbit Motion | p. 259 |
| Canonical Variables of the Second Kind and the Reduction of the N-Body Problem | p. 269 |
| Motion near the Unit Circle in the Three-Body Problem | p. 281 |
| A Global Analysis of the Generalized Sitnikov Problem | p. 291 |
| The Hamiltonian Dynamics of the Two Gyrostats Problem | p. 303 |
| Planetary Systems | p. 313 |
| Complements to Moon's Lunar Libration Theory | p. 317 |
| Impact of the Quadrupole Moment of the Sun on the Dynamics of the Earth-Moon System | p. 329 |
| The Effect of C[subscript 22] on Orbit Energy and Angular Momentum | p. 339 |
| The Use of Lie Series in the Construction of a Perturbation Theory and Some Recent Results in the Theory of the Motion of Hyperion | p. 349 |
| Higher Order and Iterative Theories to Compute Asteroid Mean Elements | p. 359 |
| The Asteroid Mass Determination Project at the U.S. Naval Observatory | p. 361 |
| The Asteroid Identification Problem | p. 363 |
| Interaction of Resonances and Yarkovsky Non-Gravitational Effects in the Asteroid Belt | p. 365 |
| Target Plane Confidence Boundaries: Mathematics of the 1997 XF11 Scare | p. 369 |
| A Dynamical Survey of Inner Solar System Asteroids | p. 371 |
| Detailled Study of the Dynamics of Fragments of Comet C / 1996 B2 Hyakutake | p. 373 |
| Proper Elements and Stability of the Trojan Asteroids | p. 375 |
| Dynamical Behaviour of Asteroids in the 4:1 Resonance | p. 377 |
| Perturbations of Small Moons Orbits due to their Rotation: the Model Problem | p. 379 |
| Mean-Motion Resonances in the Asteroid Belt | p. 381 |
| On the Critical Phenomena in the Dynamics of Asteroids | p. 383 |
| Dynamics of Real Asteroids at the Hecuba Gap | p. 387 |
| Modelling Very-High-Eccentri-city Asteroidal Librations with the Andoyer Hamiltonian | p. 389 |
| Resonant Relaxation | p. 391 |
| Periodic Orbits in Three-Armed Galaxies | p. 393 |
| Orbits in a Stackel Approximation | p. 395 |
| Measuring Mass Loss Rates from Galactic Satellites | p. 397 |
| Effect of Chaotic Orbits on Dynamical Friction | p. 399 |
| Nonparametric Statistical Models of Globular Cluster Dynamics | p. 401 |
| Orbits of Hipparcos Metal-Poor Stars with Well-Defined Spectroscopic Abundances | p. 403 |
| HST-FGS Astrometry of the Low Mass Binary L722-22 | p. 405 |
| Can Combination of 'Kozai effect' and Tidal Friction Produce Close Stellar and Planetary Orbits? | p. 409 |
| Simple Periodic Orbits in Elliptical Galaxies Modelled by Hamiltonians in 1-1-1 Resonances | p. 411 |
| Moon's Planetary Perturbations | p. 413 |
| On the Construction of a Long Term Moon's Theory | p. 415 |
| A New Model of Mars Rotation from Pathfinder Data | p. 417 |
| Dynamics of the Mimas-Thetys System | p. 419 |
| A Necessary Condition to the Simultaneous Correction of Celestial Reference Frames | p. 425 |
| Secular Perturbations near Mean Motion Resonances | p. 427 |
| Dynamics of Factitious Earth Satellites with Possible Past Value of the Ecliptic | p. 429 |
| An Intermediary Periodic Orbit for Hyperion | p. 431 |
| Averaging of Earth-Crossing Orbits | p. 433 |
| Rotational Motion of Celestial Bodies in the Relativistic Framework | p. 435 |
| Lommel Functions in some Drag-Perturbed Problem | p. 437 |
| Two Conjectures of G. D. Birkhoff | p. 439 |
| Three-Body Stability Criteria | p. 441 |
| Nekhoroshev Stability in Quasi-Integrable Degenerate Hamiltonian Systems | p. 443 |
| Nekhoroshev-Stability of L[subscript 4] and L[subscript 5] in the Spatial Restricted Problem | p. 445 |
| Effective Lyapunov Numbers and Correlation Dimension in a 3-D Hamiltonian System | p. 447 |
| A Symplectic Integration Scheme that Allows Close Encounters between Massive Bodies | p. 449 |
| Analytical Approximation of the Dissipative Standard Map | p. 451 |
| Second Order Perturbations of Elliptic Elements with respect to the Initial Ones | p. 453 |
| Zonal Harmonics of the Gravity Field in DEF-variables | p. 455 |
| On the Stability of Stationary Solutions of the Twice-Averaged Hill's Problem taking into account the Planet Oblateness | p. 457 |
| Study of the Normal Variational Equation in an Homogeneous Field of Degree Five | p. 459 |
| Generalyzed Gylden-Type System in Universal DS-like TR-variables | p. 461 |
| Orbital Structure of the Two Fixed Centres Problem | p. 463 |
| Chaos in Three-Body Dynamics: Intermittency, Strange Attractor, Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy | p. 465 |
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