ELIMINATION OF THE LATITUDE IN ARTIFICIAL-SATELLITE THEORY

Authors
COPPOLA VT PALACIAN J
Citation
Vt. Coppola et J. Palacian, ELIMINATION OF THE LATITUDE IN ARTIFICIAL-SATELLITE THEORY, The Journal of the astronautical sciences, 42(1), 1994, pp. 27-34
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Aerospace Engineering & Tecnology
Journal title
The Journal of the astronautical sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
00219142
Volume
42
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
27 - 34
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9142(1994)42:1<27:EOTLIA>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
We demonstrate that the elimination of the latitude simplification dev eloped by Deprit and Ferrer cannot produce unique results. After expla ining the source of the non-uniqueness, we report two (and indeed a fa mily of) distinct second order Hamiltonians for the main problem in ar tificial satellite theory produced using their algorithm.