The Collinear Libration Points in the Elliptic R3BP with a Triaxial Primary and an Oblate Secondary

Jagadish Singh, Aishetu Umar

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.

DOI: 10.4236/ijaa.2014.42034                

Abstract

This paper examines the motion of a dust grain around a triaxial primary and an oblate companion orbiting each other in elliptic orbits about their common barycenter in the neighborhood of collinear libration points. The positions and stability of these points are found to be affected by the triaxiality and oblateness of the primaries, and by the semi-major axis and eccentricity of their orbits. The stability behavior of the collinear points however remains unchanged; they are unstable in the Lyapunov sense.

Keywords

Celestial Mechanics, ER3BP, Triaxiality, Oblateness, Collinear Points

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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