Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985avest..19..120r&link_type=abstract
(Astronomicheskii Vestnik, vol. 19, Apr.-June 1985, p. 120-124) Solar System Research (ISSN 0038-0946), vol. 19, no. 2, Oct. 198
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Comets, Ecliptic, Solar Orbits, Spherical Coordinates, Angular Momentum, Jupiter (Planet), Neptune (Planet), Perihelions, Saturn (Planet), Uranus (Planet), Venus (Planet)
Scientific paper
Several reasons are presented for using the invariant Laplacian plane (LP), i.e., the weighted mean plane of the orbits of all the planets, as the basis for a reference coordinate system for cometary studies. It is shown that if one uses the Tesserand criteria to determine if several comets have a common origin in a large comet which was broken up by planetary gravitational forces, then the orbital elements of many known comets can be predicted, using the LP coordinates, with an accuracy that surpasses the accuracy available using the ecliptic plane as the basis for a solar system coordinate set. The order of magnitude increase in accuracy available with the LP coordinate system has encouraged the calculation of a new catalog of the distribution of cometary orbital elements using the new LP coordinates.
Radzievskii V. V.
Tomanov V. P.
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