Long-term evolution of orbits about a precessing oblate planet: 3. A semianalytical and a purely numerical approach

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 261-292

  Gurfil, Pini ^a   Lainey, Valéry ^b,c   Efroimsky, Michael ^d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^d US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deimos; Equinoctial precession; Mars; Natural satellites; Natural satellites' orbits; Orbital elements; Osculating elements; The Goldreich lock

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649013228     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-007-9099-0     Document Type: Article

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