Frozen orbits around a prolate body

• V. Lanchares ^[1] ; A.I. Pascual ^[1] ; J.F. SanJuan ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de La Rioja

     Universidad de La Rioja

     Logroño, España

     
• Localización: Monografías de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas, Químicas y Naturales de Zaragoza, ISSN 1132-6360, Nº. 35, 2011, págs. 73-81
• Idioma: inglés
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  • For a satellite orbiting a prolate body we determine the class of the so called frozen orbits, a kind of trajectories for which either the eccentricity and the argument of the perigee are close to be stationary. This is done after an averaging procedure that produces a one degree of freedom Hamiltonian system retaining the main qualitative features of the original one. This reduced system can be studied in a systematic way in order to calculate the equilibrium solutions, directly related to the frozen orbits.