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Interactions between an initially uniformly rotating body with a second degree and order gravity field and a sphere are analyzed. Explicit predictions of the change in rotational angular momentum of the non-spherical body are derived over one interaction (i.e. periapsis passage) between the bodies. The estimated changes are expressed in terms of trigonometric functions and generalized Hansen coefficients.
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Scheeres, D. Changes in Rotational Angular Momentum due to Gravitational Interactions between Two Finite Bodies*. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 81, 39–44 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013350918651
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013350918651