Resonant moons and asteroids do all kinds of crazy things. Earth also has a bunch of objects in quasi-horseshoe resonant orbits like Cruithne.
The solar system's greatest playground for weird orbital dynamics has to be the Saturn system, though. Just about everything's going on somewhere in there.
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Date: 2011-08-03 06:02 pm (UTC)The solar system's greatest playground for weird orbital dynamics has to be the Saturn system, though. Just about everything's going on somewhere in there.