ABSTRACT
The stability of the solar system is a subject of much interest in the field of astronomy. Although the planets have been stable historically and will be in the short term, their weak gravitational effects on one another can be added up to some extent in unpredictable ways. On account of this, besides others, the solar system is considered to be chaotic [1], and also for that even the most precise long-term models for the orbital motion of the solar system are not assumed valid over more than a few tens of millions of years [2]. However, the solar system is taken as stable in human terms, in that none of the planets will collide with each other or be ejected from the system in the next few billion years [3], and also the Earth’s orbit will be relatively stable [4].
