Precession of a freely rotating rigid body. Inelastic relaxation in the vicinity of poles

DOI10.1063/1.533216zbMath0984.70003arXivastro-ph/9909220OpenAlexW3105347137MaRDI QIDQ2737907

Michael Efroimsky

Publication date: 30 August 2001

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909220

zbMATH Keywords

asteroidspoleasymmetric bodycosmic-dust alignmentellipsoid of constant angular momentumfreely rotating rigid bodyinternal energy dissipationrotating satellites

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free motion of a rigid body (70E15) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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• Motion of a rigid body with an attached spring-mass damper

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