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The equations of motion of an artificial satellite in nonsingular variables

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The equations of motion of an artificial satellite are given in nonsingular variables. Any term in the geopotential is considered as well as luni-solar perturbations up to an arbitrary power ofr/r′, r′ being the geocentric distance of the disturbing body. Resonances with tesseral harmonics and with the Moon or Sun are also considered. By neglecting the shadow effect, the disturbing function for solar radiation is also developed in nonsingular variables for the long periodic perturbations. Formulas are developed for implementation of the theory in actual computations.

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  1. G. E. O. Giacaglia

    Present address: University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Giacaglia, G.E.O. The equations of motion of an artificial satellite in nonsingular variables. Celestial Mechanics 15, 191–215 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01228462

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