Exploring S-type Orbits in the Pluto-Charon Binary System

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Sep 2009

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #6.03

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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This work generates, through a sample of numerical simulations of the restricted three body problem, diagrams of semimajor axis and eccentricity which defines stable and unstable zones for particles in S-type orbits around Pluto and Charon. Since we consider initial conditions with 0 < e < 0.5, we found several stable regions not identified in previous studies (Stern et al.,1994; Nagy et al.,2006). We also identified the nature of each one of these newly found stable regions. They are all associated to families of periodic orbits derived from the planar circular restricted three-body problem. We have shown that a possible eccentricity of the Pluto-Charon system (Tholen et al,2008) slightly reduce, but do not destroy any of, the stable regions.

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