Total gravitational energy of a slightly ellipsoidal trilayer planet

DOI10.1090/S0033-569X-06-00985-5zbMath1131.70008OpenAlexW1983036520MaRDI QIDQ5441261

Jack Wisdom, Pavel Grinfeld

Publication date: 11 February 2008

Published in: Quarterly of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0033-569x-06-00985-5

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian formulationsecond-order ellipsoidal perturbationsstable equilibrium orientation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15) Stability problems in rigid body dynamics (70E50)

Cites Work

• A way to compute the gravitational potential for near-spherical geometries
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