Relative equilibria and periodic orbits in a circular planar (2+2)-body problem

DOI10.1007/S10569-023-10173-0MaRDI QIDQ6131810zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lennard Bakker, Nicholas J. Freeman

Publication date 18 April 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00273

zbMATH Keywords

periodic orbitsrelative equilibriacomet orbitsplanar four-body problemconvex kite configurationHill orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Mechanics of particles and systems (70-XX)

Abstract: We present a planar four-body model, called the Binary Asteroid Problem, for the motion of two asteroids (having small but positive masses) moving under the gravitational attraction of each other, and under the gravitational attraction of two primaries (with masses much larger than the two asteroids) moving in uniform circular motion about their center of mass. We show the Binary Asteroid Model has (at least) 6 relative equilibria and (at least) 10 one-parameter families of periodic orbits, two of which are of Hill-type. The existence of six relative equilibria and 8 one-parameter families of periodic orbits is obtained by a reduction of the Binary Asteroid Problem in which the primaries have equal mass, the asteroids have equal mass, and the positions of the asteroids are symmetric with respect to the origin. The remaining two one-parameter families of periodic orbits, which are of comet-type, are obtained directly in the Binary Asteroid Problem.

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