Phase Space structurefor three-dimesional motion around Europa

  1. Lara, M. 1
  2. San Juan, J.F. 2
  1. 1 Ephemeris Department, Real Observatorio de la Armada, E-11110 San Fernando, Spain
  2. 2 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Revista:
Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

ISSN: 0065-3438

Año de publicación: 2003

Volumen: 114

Número: SUPPL.

Páginas: 1885-1899

Tipo: Artículo

SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-1542299656 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Resumen

The dynamics of an orbiter close to a planetary satellite is known to be unstable from a wide range of inclinations encompassing polar orbits. Taking the Jupiter-Europa system as our model, we use numerically determined periodic orbits to investigate the stability of motion over three dimensional space for this problem. We found that the change in the stability is produced by a bifurcation in phase space: At a certain critical inclination, almost circular periodic orbits change their stability character to instability and new families of (stable) eccentric orbits appear.