Fourth-order orbital equations in stationary weak gravitational fields (Q1110354)

The aim of this paper is to derive the contributions corresponding to the potentials of rotation and, to this end, we shall consider the gravitational potentials generated by a massive body rotating steadily around an axis of rotation. We obtain briefly, the equations of orbital motions in fourth approximation for stationary fields and then, to obtain first integrals of these equations suppose the generating body of the field has as axis of symmetry its axis of rotation. To obtain the equations for the trajectories we assume that the body has as a plane of symmetry the plane of its equator. Finally, using the canonical formulation, we obtain the fourth-order contributions corresponding to the mentioned potentials of rotation.