Frozen orbits around a prolate body
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Universidad de La Rioja
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ISSN: 1132-6360
Año de publicación: 2011
Número: 35
Páginas: 73-81
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Monografías de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas, Químicas y Naturales de Zaragoza
Resumen
For a satellite orbiting a prolate body we determine the class of the so called frozen orbits, a kind of trajectories for which either the eccentricity and the argument of the perigee are close to be stationary. This is done after an averaging procedure that produces a one degree of freedom Hamiltonian system retaining the main qualitative features of the original one. This reduced system can be studied in a systematic way in order to calculate the equilibrium solutions, directly related to the frozen orbits.