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Collision orbits in the oblate planet problem

J. Martínez Alfaro

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PhysicsApplied MathematicsAstronomy and AstrophysicsOrbital mechanicsCollisionCelestial mechanicsBlowing upComputational MathematicsSingularityClassical mechanicsSpace and Planetary SciencePlanetModeling and SimulationAutomotive EngineeringOblate spheroidAstrophysics::Earth and Planetary AstrophysicsMathematical Physics

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Some of the properties of the oblate planet problem are derived. We use the technique of blowing up the singularity to study the collision orbits. We define some families of them in terms of their asymptotic behavior.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01241051