
The Dynamics of Natural Satellites of the Planets
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Key Features
- Combines astronomy and celestial mechanics, providing astrometric data from observations to inform methods and models for predicting natural satellite dynamics
- Includes both theory and observation in one place and presents new models based on observations
- Organized into small sections, each providing specific measurements, calculations or models, making it a quick and comprehensive reference
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Table of Contents
1. Goals, objectives and a general approach to the study of the dynamics of natural satellites
2. Satellites of the planets
3. Equations of motion and analytic theories
4. Methods of numerical integration
5. Observations of planetary satellites
6. Building models of motion of celestial bodies based on observations
7. Obtaining astrometric data from observations of mutual occultations and eclipses of planetary satellites
8. Assessment of the accuracy of the planetary satellites ephemeris
9. The rotation of the satellites of the planets
10. The evolution of the orbits of the natural satellites of the planets
11. Physical parameters of natural satellites
12. Natural satellites information resourcesAppendix
1. The nomenclature of planetary satellites
2. Orbital parameters of satellites
3. Special functions in celestial mechanics
4. Time scales
5. Decomposition by Cholesky. Calculating program
6. Parameters of rotation of planets and satellites
7. Physical parameters of planetary satellites
Product details
- No. of pages: 518
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2020
- Published: October 16, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128227121
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128227046
About the Author
Nikolay Emelyanov
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