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Solution to the problem of stability of regular precessions of a symmetrical gyrostat in Newtonian field

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The constraints imposed on parameters of a force field and of a symmetrical gyrostat in it are determined, at which regular precession of this gyrostat demonstrate Lyapunov stability (or, respectively, instability).

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Original Russian Text © I.A. Galiullin, 2011, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2011, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 182–184.

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Galiullin, I.A. Solution to the problem of stability of regular precessions of a symmetrical gyrostat in Newtonian field. Cosmic Res 49, 175–178 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001095251102002X

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