Orbital Dynamics in the Gravitational Field of Small Bodies

Download or read book Orbital Dynamics in the Gravitational Field of Small Bodies written by Yang Yu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prizewinning PhD thesis presents a general discussion of the orbital motion close to solar system small bodies (SSSBs), which induce non-central asymmetric gravitational fields in their neighborhoods. It introduces the methods of qualitative theory in nonlinear dynamics to the study of local/global behaviors around SSSBs. Detailed mechanical models are employed throughout this dissertation, and specific numeric techniques are developed to compensate for the difficulties of directly analyzing. Applying this method, several target systems, like asteroid 216 Kleopatra, are explored in great detail, and the results prove to be both revealing and pervasive for a large group of SSSBs.