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Space Debris – The Short Term Orbital Evolution in the Earth Gravity Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Edwin Wnuk
Edwin Wnuk*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, A. Mickiewicz University Poznañ, Poland

Abstract

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Two aspects of the orbital evolution of space debris – the long-term evolution and the short-term one – are of interest for an exploration of the near- Earth space. The paper presents some results concerning the estimation of the accuracy of predicted positions of Earth-orbiting objects for the short-term: a few revolutions or a time-span interval of a few days. Calculations of predicted positions take into account the influence of an arbitrary number of spherical coefficients of the Earth gravity potential. Differences in predicted positions due to differences in the best contemporary geopotential models (JGM-2, JGM-3 and GRIM4-S4) are estimated with the use of an analytical theory of motion and a numerical integration.

Type
Dynamics and Astrometry: Present and Future
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 165: Dynamics and Astrometry of Natural and Artificial Celestial Bodies , 1997 , pp. 71 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

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