Scheeres D.J. Orbital Motion in Strongly Perturbed Environments: Applications to Asteroid, Comet and Planetary Satellite Orbiters

Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012. – 396 p. – ISBN: 3642431631; 3642032559The investigation of minor solar system bodies, such as comets and asteroids, using spacecraft requires an understanding of orbital motion in strongly perturbed environments. The solutions to a wide range of complex and challenging problems in this field are reviewed in this comprehensive and authoritative work.Modeling
Introduction and Background
Modeling Small Body Environments
Dynamics
Non-Perturbed Solutions
Equations of Motion for a Small Body Orbiter
Properties of Solution
Solution and Characterization Methods
Applications to Asteroids, Comets and Planetary Satellites
Uniformly Rotating Bodies: Asteroid 433 Eros
Complex Rotators: Asteroid 4179 Toutatis
Binary Asteroids: 1999 KW4
The Surface Environment on Asteroids
Controlled Hovering Motion at an Asteroid
Solar Radiation Pressure: Exact Analysis
Solar Radiation Pressure: Averaged Analysis
Small Bodies: Asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Comet Outgassing
Planetary Satellites: Exact Analysis
Planetary Satellites: Averaged Analysis
Small Planetary Satellites: Deimos
Appendices
Two-Body Orbit RelationsB. Fourier Series Expansions of Radius Functions
Averaging Results
Canonical Transformations
Legendre Polynomials and Associated Functions
Elliptic Functions and Integrals