Dynamics of capture in the restricted three-body problem

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We propose a new dynamical model for capture of irregular moons which identifies chaos as the essential feature responsible for initial temporary gravitational trapping within a planet's Hill sphere. The key point is that incoming potential satellites get trapped in chaotic orbits close to "sticky" KAM tori in the neighbourhood of the planet, possibly for very long times, so that the chaotic layer largely dictates the final orbital properties of captured moons.
prepared for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, "Order and Chaos in Stellar and Planetary Systems", St.Petersburg, Russia, August 17-24, 2003

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Astrophysics, Dynamical Systems, Chaotic Dynamics

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/6833

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310618
 http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310618
 in "Order and Chaos in Stellar and Planetary Systems", ASP Conference Series Vol.316, G. G. Bird, K. V. Kholshevnikov, A. A. Millari, I. I. Nikiforov, and V. V. Orlov (Eds.), San Francisco, CA, 2004, pp. 80-85.

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