The evolution of the orbit distance in the     double averaged restricted 3-body problem    with crossing singularities

Giovanni F. Gronchi; Chiara Tardioli

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2013.18.1323

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2013, Volume 18, Issue 5: 1323-1344. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2013.18.1323

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The evolution of the orbit distance in the double averaged restricted 3-body problem with crossing singularities

Giovanni F. Gronchi^1, and
Chiara Tardioli^2,

1.
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitá di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 5, 56127 Pisa
2.
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 5, 56127, Pisa

Received: May 31, 2012

Revised: December 31, 2012

Published: June 2013

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We study the long term evolution of the distance between two Keplerian confocal trajectories in the framework of the averaged restricted 3-body problem. The bodies may represent the Sun, a solar system planet and an asteroid. The secular evolution of the orbital elements of the asteroid is computed by averaging the equations of motion over the mean anomalies of the asteroid and the planet. When an orbit crossing with the planet occurs the averaged equations become singular. However, it is possible to define piecewise differentiable solutions by extending the averaged vector field beyond the singularity from both sides of the orbit crossing set [8],[5]. In this paper we improve the previous results, concerning in particular the singularity extraction technique, and show that the extended vector fields are Lipschitz-continuous. Moreover, we consider the distance between the Keplerian trajectories of the small body and of the planet. Apart from exceptional cases, we can select a sign for this distance so that it becomes an analytic map of the orbital elements near to crossing configurations [11]. We prove that the evolution of the `signed' distance along the averaged vector field is more regular than that of the elements in a neighborhood of crossing times. A comparison between averaged and non-averaged evolutions and an application of these results are shown using orbits of near-Earth asteroids.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 70F07, 70K65; Secondary: 70M20.

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