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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 682)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Taking both a theoretical and observational perspective, this book is an introduction to recent developments in the field of celestial mechanics. It emphasizes the application to extended celestial bodies and devotes much attention to rotational aspects. In particular, it explains the state of art for accurate modelling of the rotation of celestial bodies such as the Earth, the Moon, and Mercury, which involves principles related to hydrodynamics and geodesy. Comparisons between the light curves of the asteroids and their rotational state are made and spatial techniques leading to the determination of the Earth's gravitational field are explained. Also, the book provides a general overview of the collisional processes in the solar system and of the dynamics of the rings. It is addressed to graduate students and researchers in space sciences and celestial dynamics.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book is devoted to the study of the dynamics of celestial bodies, in cases where they cannot be approximated by material points. … this volume may serve well as a basic tutorial for the study of the title problem for extended bodies of our Solar system." (Simos Ichtiaroglou, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1109 (11), 2007)
Editors and Affiliations
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Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
Jean Souchay
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamics of Extended Celestial Bodies And Rings
Editors: Jean Souchay
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b106629
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-28024-8Published: 12 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06630-6Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32455-3Published: 03 August 2006
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 208
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Classical Mechanics, Geophysics/Geodesy