Minimum energy configurations in the N-body problem and the celestial mechanics of granular systems |
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Authors: | D. J. Scheeres |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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Abstract: | Minimum energy configurations in Celestial Mechanics are investigated. It is shown that this is not a well defined problem for point-mass celestial mechanics but well-posed for finite density distributions. This naturally leads to a granular mechanics extension of usual Celestial Mechanics questions such as relative equilibria and stability. This paper specifically studies and finds all relative equilibria and minimum energy configurations for N?=?1, 2, 3 and develops hypotheses on the relative equilibria and minimum energy configurations for N ? 1 bodies. |
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