Orbital motion in strongly perturbed environments
Subtitle: applications to asteroid, comet and planetary satellite orbiters
By: Daniel J. Scheeres
Series: Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering; Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering
Publisher: Springer; Published in association with Praxis Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York; Chichester, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9783642032554; 9783642032561
Subjects: Comets; Asteroids; Orbits; Orbital mechanics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-386) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Modeling: 1. Introduction and background; title: 2. Modeling small body environments; title: II: Dynamics: 3. Non-perturbed solutions; title: 4. Equations of motion for a small body orbiter; title: 5. Properties of solution; title: 6. Solution and characterization methods; title: III: Applications to asteroids, comets and planetary satellites: 7. Uniformly rotating bodies: asteroid 433 Eros; title: 8. Complex rotators: asteroid 4179 Toutatis; title: 9. Binary asteroids: 1999 KW4; title: 10. The surface environment on asteroids; title: 11. Controlled hovering motion at an asteroid; title: 12. Solar radiation pressure: exact analysis; title: 13 Solar radiation pressure: averaged analysis; title: 14. Small bodies: asteroid 25143 Itokawa; title: 15. Comet outgassing; title: 16. Planetary satellites: exact analysis; title: 17. Planetary satellites: averaged analysis; title: 18. Small planetary satellites: deimos; title: IV: Appendices.