Study on orbits near the triangular libration points in the perturbed restricted three body problem

Gomez, G.; Llibre, J.; Martinez, R.; Simo, C.
Bibliographical reference

Final Report Fundacio Empresa i Ciencia, Barcelona (Spain).

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1987
Number of authors
4
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0
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0
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0
Description
Periodic orbits of the bicircular problem and their stability; numerical simulations of the motion in an extended neighborhood of the triangular libration points in the Earth-Moon system; the equations of motion; periodic orbits of intermediate equations; a semianalytical approach to the quasi-periodic solution of the global equations; numerical determination of suitable orbits of the simplified system; and relative motion of two close spacecraft are discussed. There is evidence that orbits moving in a large annulus around L4 and L5 exist, that these orbits have small components out of the plane of the Earth-Moon system, and that they are at most mildly unstable.