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Published March 2005 | Version Updated
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Geometric Mechanics and the Dynamics of Asteroid Pairs

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  • 1. ROR icon Universidad Nacional del Sur
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

This paper studies, using the technique of Lagrangian reduction, the geometric mechanics of a pair of asteroids in orbit about each other under mutual gravitational attraction.

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© 2005 Taylor & Francis Ltd. December, 2003; this version June 18, 2004. Received 16 April 2004; in final form 12 July 2004. We thank Steven Brunton, Eva Kanso, Wang-Sang Koon, Martin Lo, Tudor Ratiu, Shane Ross, Dan Scheeres for their interest and remarks. This research was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0204474

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NSF
DMS-0204474

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