Poynting-Robertson effect and small eccentric orbits

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Oct 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993cemda..57r.407k&link_type=abstract

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (ISSN 0923-2958), vol. 57, no. 1-2, p. 407

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Eccentric Orbits, Electromagnetic Radiation, Orbit Calculation, Orbit Perturbation, Poynting-Robertson Effect, Radiation Effects, Solar Orbits, Solar Radiation, Circular Orbits, Eccentricity, Orbital Elements, Temporal Distribution

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Perturbation equations of celestial mechanics in application to solar electromagnetic radiation are investigated. Special attention is paid to nearly circular orbits. It is pointed out that real orbits of this type exhibit qualitatively different behavior from that generally accepted, as for time evolution of orbital elements. In previous work it was assumed that as the orbit shrinks it becomes more and more circular. We have found that the eccentricity decreases only during approximately = 1/3 of the total time of inspiralling toward the Sun and that the orbit actually becomes more and more eccentric in the subsequent orbital evolution.

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