Long-term evolution of orbits about a precessing oblate planet: 1. The case of uniform precession

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 75-108

  Efroimsky, Michael ^a  

^a US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact orbital elements; Near equatorial satellites of oblate planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444384161     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-004-2415-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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