The Proximities of Asteroids and Critical Points of the Distance Function

The Proximities of Asteroids and Critical Points of the Distance Function

The proximities are important for different purposes,for example to evaluate the risk of collisions of asteroids or comets with the Solar-System planets. We describe a simple and efficient method for finding the asteroid proximities in the case of elliptical orbits with a common focus. In several ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milisavljevic, S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Astronomical Observatory, Department of Astronomy, Belgrade 2010-06-01
Series:Serbian Astronomical Journal
Subjects:
Celestial mechanics
Minor planets
Asteroids
Online Access:http://saj.matf.bg.ac.rs/180/pdf/091-102.pdf
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Summary:The proximities are important for different purposes,for example to evaluate the risk of collisions of asteroids or comets with the Solar-System planets. We describe a simple and efficient method for finding the asteroid proximities in the case of elliptical orbits with a common focus. In several examples we have compared our method with the recent excellent algebraic and polynomial solutions of Gronchi (2002, 2005).
ISSN:1450-698X

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