On the uncertainty of the minimal distance between two confocal Keplerian orbits

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 755-778

  Gronchi, Giovanni F ^a   Tommei, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Covariance propagation; Orbit distance; Regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250819363     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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