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Scattering experiments are a primary source of our knowledge about elementary particles, atoms and molecules. Similarly celestial bodies are scattered by the sun or the whole solar system.

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Knauf, A., Sinai, Y.G., Baladi, V. (1997). Irregular Scattering. In: Classical Nonintegrability, Quantum Chaos. DMV Seminar, vol 27. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8932-2_3

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