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The influence of orbital dynamics, shape and tides on the obliquity of Mercury
Benoit Noyelles, Christoph Lhotka
Earth-based radar observations of the rotational dynamics of Mercury (Margot et al. 2012) combined with the determination of its gravity field by MESSENGER (Smith et al. 2012) give…
Interesting dynamics at high mutual inclination in the framework of the Kozai problem with an eccentric perturber
A. -S. Libert, N. Delsate
We study the dynamics of the 3-D three-body problem of a small body moving under the attractions of a star and a giant planet which orbits the star on a much wider and elliptic orb…
The orbit of 2010 TK7. Possible regions of stability for other Earth Trojan asteroids
Rudolf Dvorak, Christoph Lhotka, Liyong Zhou
Recently the first Earth Trojan has been observed (Mainzer et al., ApJ 731) and found to be on an interesting orbit close to the Lagrange point L4 (Connors et al., Nature 475). In…
Symplectic integration of space debris motion considering several Earth's shadowing models
Ch. Hubaux, A. Lemaître, N. Delsate +1
In this work, we present a symplectic integration scheme to numerically compute space debris motion. Such an integrator is particularly suitable to obtain reliable trajectories of…
Analytical and numerical study of the ground-track resonances of Dawn orbiting Vesta
N. Delsate
The aim of Dawn mission is the acquisition of data from orbits around two bodies, (4)Vesta and (1)Ceres, the two most massive asteroids. Due to the low thrust propulsion, Dawn will…