Stability of the Euler resting N-body relative equilibria

DOI10.1007/S10569-018-9819-7zbMATH Open1390.70025arXiv1802.00920OpenAlexW2963726006WikidataQ124839708 ScholiaQ124839708MaRDI QIDQ1637804FDOQ1637804

Authors: Daniel J. Scheeres 

Publication date: 11 June 2018

Published in: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The stability of a system of $N$ equal sized mutually gravitating spheres resting on each other in a straight line and rotating in inertial space is considered. This is a generalization of the "Euler Resting" configurations previously analyzed in the finite density 3 and 4 body problems. Specific questions for the general case are how rapidly the system must spin for the configuration to stabilize, how rapidly it can spin before the components separate from each other, and how these results change as a function of $N$. This paper shows that the Euler Resting configuration can only be stable for up to 5 bodies, and that for 6 or more bodies the configuration can never be stable. This places an ideal limit of 5:1 on the aspect ratio of a rubble pile body's shape.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00920

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zbMATH Keywords

full body problemresting relative equilibriarubble pile asteroids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

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