Secular motion around triaxial, synchronously orbiting, planetary satellites: Application to Europa

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 120, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1147-1166

  Lara, Martín ^a   San Juan, Juan F ^b   Ferrer, Sebastián ^c  

^a Real Observatorio de la Armada   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT;

MEAN MOTION; PERTURBATION THEORY; SECULAR MOTION;

ORBITS;

EID: 26944488644     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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