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An Application of the Stroboscopic Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. A. Roth
E. A. Roth*
Affiliation:
ESOC, Darmstadt

Abstract

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In this paper the motion of an orbiter of a satellite of one of the major planets is considered. The orbiter undergoes various perturbing effects. It is shown that the semi-analytical stroboscopic method is well suited to take into account all perturbations.

Type
Part IV. Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, and Artificial Satellites
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 41: Dynamics of Planets and Satellites and Theories of their Motion , 1978 , pp. 181 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978

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