The evolution of the orbit distance in the double averaged restricted 3-body problem with crossing singularities

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2013.18.1323MaRDI QIDQ378981zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chiara Tardioli, Giovanni F. Gronchi

Publication date 12 November 2013

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2584

zbMATH Keywords

secular dynamicsaveraging of perturbationsorbit crossing singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-body problems (70F07) Averaging of perturbations for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K65) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

Abstract: We study the long term evolution of the distance between two Keplerian confocal trajectories in the framework of the averaged restricted 3-body problem. The bodies may represent the Sun, a solar system planet and an asteroid. The secular evolution of the orbital elements of the asteroid is computed by averaging the equations of motion over the mean anomalies of the asteroid and the planet. When an orbit crossing with the planet occurs the averaged equations become singular. However, it is possible to define piecewise differentiable solutions by extending the averaged vector field beyond the singularity from both sides of the orbit crossing set. In this paper we improve the previous results, concerning in particular the singularity extraction technique, and show that the extended vector fields are Lipschitz-continuous. Moreover, we consider the distance between the Keplerian trajectories of the small body and of the planet. Apart from exceptional cases, we can select a sign for this distance so that it becomes an analytic map of the orbital elements near to crossing configurations. We prove that the evolution of the 'signed' distance along the averaged vector field is more regular than that of the elements in a neighborhood of crossing times. A comparison between averaged and non-averaged evolutions and an application of these results are shown using orbits of near-Earth asteroids.

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