Frozen orbits at high eccentricity and inclination: application to Mercury orbiter

DOI10.1007/S10569-010-9306-2zbMATH Open1223.70080arXiv1003.0327OpenAlexW3103892690MaRDI QIDQ642403FDOQ642403

Authors: N. Delsate, Philippe Robutel, Anne Lemaitre, T. Carletti 

Publication date: 26 October 2011

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

Abstract: We hereby study the stability of a massless probe orbiting around an oblate central body (planet or planetary satellite) perturbed by a third body, assumed to lie in the equatorial plane (Sun or Jupiter for example) using an Hamiltonian formalism. We are able to determine, in the parameters space, the location of the frozen orbits, namely orbits whose orbital elements remain constant on average, to characterize their stability/unstability and to compute the periods of the equilibria. The proposed theory is general enough, to be applied to a wide range of probes around planet or natural planetary satellites. The BepiColombo mission is used to motivate our analysis and to provide specific numerical data to check our analytical results. Finally, we also bring to the light that the coefficient J_2 is able to protect against the increasing of the eccentricity due to the Kozai-Lidov effect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0327

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilitylong-term evolutionbepicolombofrozen orbit equilibriakozai resonanceslidov-kozai effectplanetary probes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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