POST-NEWTONIAN EFFECTS IN THE MOTION OF THE INNERMOST JUPITER’S SATELLITES

Boronenko Tatyana Stepanovna

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In the present paper the possibility of measuring general relativistic effects on the orbits of the inner Jupiter’s satellites are discussed. We consider for Amalthea J5 the question if the PN components of orbital precession can be isolated from the far larger Newtonian precession. The results of several numerical simulations have shown that all larger contributions of Newtonian perturbations can be modeled and subtracted out.

Keywords: celestial mechanics, perturbation theory, satellites dynamics, relativistic effects, Jupiter’s satellites

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Issue: 7, 2012

Pages: 70 — 75

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