Dynamics of a satellite orbiting a planet with an inhomogeneous gravitational field

DOI10.1007/s10569-007-9078-5zbMath1136.70316OpenAlexW2004602672MaRDI QIDQ2641622

Jesús F. Palacián

Publication date: 21 August 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-007-9078-5

zbMATH Keywords

KAM theoryInvariant toriNon-linear stabilityBifurcation linesDelaunay normalisationQuasiperiodic and periodic orbitsReduction and invariant theoriesSatellite dynamicsZonal and tesseral harmonics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Two-body problems (70F05) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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