Longitudinal librations of a satellite

Furi, Martelli and Landsberg gave a theoretical explanation of the chaotic longitudinal librations of Hyperion, a satellite of Saturn. The analysis was made under the simplifying assumption that the spin axis remains perpendicular to the orbit plane. Here, under the same assumption, we investiga...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Massimo Furi, Mario Martelli, Alfonso Vignoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Texas State University 2011-10-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
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Online Access:http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2011/134/abstr.html