DETECTING EXTRASOLAR MOONS AKIN TO SOLAR SYSTEM SATELLITES WITH AN ORBITAL SAMPLING EFFECT

Orbital Dynamics of Large Solar Power Satellites

Solar System Moons as Analogs for Compact Exoplanetary Systems

The field of exoplanetary science has experienced a recent surge of new systems that is largely due to the precision photometry provided by the Kepler mission. The latest discoveries have included compact planetary systems in which the orbits of the planets all lie relatively close to the host star, which presents interesting challenges in terms of formation and dynamical evolution. The compact...

Disruption and reaccretion of midsized moons during an outer solar system Late Heavy Bombardment

We investigate the problem of satellite survival during a hypothetical Late Heavy Bombardment in the outer solar system, as predicted by the Nice model (Tsiganis, Gomes, Morbidelli, and Levison 2005, Nature 435). Using a Monte Carlo approach we calculate, for satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, the probability of experiencing a catastrophic collision during the Late Heavy Bombardment (LH...

Physical Processes in the Solar System An introduction to the physics of asteroids, comets, moons and planets First Edition

This book is copyright. Subject to statutory exception, and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of the publisher.Physical processes in the solar system: an introduction to the origin, structure and evolution of asteroids, comets, planets and moons / John D. Landstreet.

Orbital Motion in Outer Solar System

Motion of a point mass in gravitational fields of the Sun and of the galactic disk is studied. Fundamental features of the motion are found by investigating the time-averaged differential equations for orbital evolution. Several types of possible orbits are mathematically exactly derived in a strictly analytical way. The relation a P 2 = f(e0, i0, ω0) between semimajor axis a and period P of th...