Cometary Orbital Dynamics and Astrometry

Cometary Diversity and Cometary Families 1.1 Introduction

Comets are classified from their orbital characteristics into two separate classes: nearly-isotropic, mainly long-period comets and ecliptic, short-period comets. Members from the former class are coming from the Oort cloud. Those of the latter class were first believed to have migrated from the Kuiper belt where they could have been accreted in situ, but recent orbital evolution simulations sh...

Combining Astrometry and Spectroscopy

Orbital solutions for binary or multiple stellar systems that combine astrometry (e.g., position angles and angular separations) with spectroscopy (radial velocities) have important advantages over astrometric-only or spectroscopic-only solutions. In many cases they allow the determination of the absolute masses of the components, as well as the distance. Yet, these kinds of combined solutions ...

Astrometry and Relativity

— General relativistic effects in astrophyiscal systems have been detected thanks to accurate astrometric measurements. We outline some keystones of astrometry such as stellar aberration (argument development during the years 1727-1872); Mercury’s perihelion precession (1845-1916); solar disk oblateness (19662001); relativistic light deflection (1916-1919); lunar geodetic precession (1916-1988)...

Spin-orbital Motion: Symmetry and Dynamics

We present the applications of variational–wavelet approach to nonlinear (rational) model for spin-orbital motion: orbital dynamics and Thomas-BMT equations for classical spin vector. We represent the solution of this dynamical system in framework of periodical wavelets via variational approach and multiresolution.

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