Accession Number:

AD0610693

Title:

EXISTENCE OF CONDITIONALLY PERIODIC ORBITS FOR THE MOTION OF A SATELLITE AROUND THE OBLATE EARTH.

Descriptive Note:

Professional paper,

Corporate Author:

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Barrar,R. B.

Report Date:

1965-01-18

Pagination or Media Count:

28.0

Abstract:

The authors previous results on the convergence of the Poincare-von Zeipel procedure in celestial mechanics are applied to the problem of the motion of a satellite around the oblate earth. The investigation concerns a potential that can vary both longitudinally and latitudinally, and also includes behavior near the critical angle. The existence of conditionally periodic orbits in all these cases is established. Author

Descriptors:

• *CELESTIAL MECHANICS
• *ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
• *HARMONIC ANALYSIS
• ORBITS
• ORBITS
• ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
• ORBITS
• PERTURBATION THEORY
• POTENTIAL THEORY
• GRAVITY
• SATELLITE ATTITUDE
• INCLINED ORBIT TRAJECTORIES
• HAMILTONIAN FUNCTIONS

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE