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The polyhedral model is used to compute the potential of the asteroid.
It is found that there are five equilibrium points for the asteroid 283 Emma.
The zero-velocity surfaces and the equilibria vary if the rotational speed vary.
The separation/primary-radius has influence on the stability of the orbit.
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Equilibria and Orbits around Asteroid using the Polyhedral Model
Yu Jiang1, 2,3 and Xiaodong Liu3 1. State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi’an Satellite Control Center, Xi’an 710043, China
3. Astronomy Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland
Y. Jiang () e-mail:
[email protected] (corresponding author)
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2. School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Abstract. In the current study, we use the polyhedral model to compute the potential of the asteroid. There are five equilibrium points in the gravitational field of the asteroid 283 Emma. We concluded that the zero-velocity surfaces and the equilibrium points change with the suppositive variation of the rotational speed of the asteroid. It is found that if the rotational speed equals a half as it is in present, the number of equilibrium points is also five. However, if the rotational speed equals twice as it is in present, there are only three equilibrium points left. Four different periodic orbits are calculated using the hierarchical grid searching method. We calculated characteristic
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multipliers of periodic orbits to invistigate the stability of these periodic orbits. The orbit near the primary's equatorial plane is more likely to be stable when the separation/ primary-radius is a large number.
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Key Words: Asteroid; Polyhedral Model; Zero-Velocity Surfaces; Equilibrium Points
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1. Introductions
The moonlet (S/2003 (283) 1) of the main belt asteroid (283) Emma was discovered in 2003 (Merline et al. 2003; Marchis et al. 2008). After that, this binary asteroid system received interests to researchers. Michalowski et al. (2006) used the available lightcurves and calculated the shape model and spin parameters of the asteroid (283) 2
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Emma. Marchis et al. (2008) used 8–10-m class telescopes conducted observations of four different binary asteroid systems: (130) Elektra, (283) Emma, (379) Huenna, and (3749) Balam. Their observation data confirmed the existence of their asteroidal moonlets. That study suggested a different origin for these moonlets, and the moonlet
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of (283) Emma is more likely to be produced by tidal effects. However, they concluded that for (379) Huenna and (3749) Balam, their moonlets are likely to be generated by mutual capture. Bouvier and Horch (2011) presented the image
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reconstructions of 283 Emma of data from the data of Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI).
(283) Emma is a P-type asteroid with a significant porosity (Marchis et al. 2008).
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Previous studies also indicated the diameter, bulk density, and rotational period of
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(283) Emma. Michalowski et al. (2006) presented the primary diameter for 283 Emma to be 148±5 km from STM (Standard Thermal Model) model, and 141±6 km from
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NEATM (near-Earth asteroid Thermal Model) model. The size of the moonlet
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S/2003(283)1 is estimated to be 9 ±5 km. Thus the main belt binary asteroidal system (283) Emma and S/2003(283)1 is a large-size-ratio binary. Marchis et al. (2008)
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derived the bulk density and the rotational period for 283 Emma to be 0.7-1.0 g∙cm-3 and 6.888h, respectively. Michalowski et al. (2006) suggested the rotational period for 283 Emma is 6.895 ± 0.003 h. Strabla et al. (2011) used the Schmidt 0.32-m f/3.1 telescope at Bassano Bresciano Observatory and showed that the period of 283 Emma is 6.896±0.001h. 3
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The dynamical behavior of the binary asteroid systems is very complicated for different binary asteroid systems. For the synchronous binary asteroids (Descamps 2010), such as 809 Lundia (Birlan et al. 2014), 854 Frostia (Bernasconi et al. 2006), 1089 Tama (Bernasconi et al. 2006), etc., the two asteroids in the system
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synchronously rotate; in other words, the orbital angular speed and the attitudinal angular speed of these two asteroids are equal. Generally, two asteroids of the synchronous binary system have the same orbital angular speed, and two different
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attitudinal angular speeds. For the high-size-ratio binary asteroid systems (Ortiz et al. 2012; Bosanac et al. 2015; Walsh and Jacobson 2015), the secondary plays the role as the moonlet in the gravitational potential of the primary, such as (41) Daphne (Matter
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In this paper, we investigate the dynamical behaviors in the gravitational potential of the primary of the large-size-ratio main belt binary asteroid (283) Emma
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and S/2003 (283) 1. The irregular shape of the (283) Emma and its influence on the gravitational environment is considered. The gravitation of the moonlet S/2003(283)1 is not included in the model when calculating orbits and equilibrium points because the gravitation ratio of the moonlet and the primary is smaller than 3.0×10-4. This study is useful for understanding the dynamical behaviors in the large-size-ratio 4
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binary asteroids. This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 investigates the 3D irregular shape, the equilibrium points and zero-velocity surfaces of asteroid 283Emma. The 3D irregular shape is calculated by the homogeneous polyhedral model with the observation data from Michalowski et al. (2006). To study the variety
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of the zero-velocity surfaces and equilibrium points under the conditions of the variety of the rotational speed, we calculated the zero-velocity surfaces and equilibrium points for two cases, the first case is to assume the rotational speed twice,
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and the second case is to assume the rotational speed half. Section 3 deals with the orbits in the gravitational potential of asteroid 283 Emma. Both of the periodic orbit and the general orbit have been investigated. Four different periodic orbits near the
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surface of 283 Emma are calculated, the 3D shapes, positions, characteristic multipliers, as well as the stability of the periodic orbits are discussed. The general
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orbit is calculated near the primary's equatorial plane. The 3D shapes of the general
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orbit are plotted in the body-fixed frame and the inertia system. Both the mechanical
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2. Equilibrium Points and Zero-Velocity Surfaces
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In this section, we calculate the equilibrium points and zero-velocity surfaces in the gravitational potential of an asteroid. The motion equations of a massless particle in the gravitational potential of the asteroid can be expressed in Cartesian coordinates x, y, and z. Let the rotational angular velocity of the asteroid be ω , the body-fixed vector from the mass center of the asteroid to the particle be r . The parameter G = 5
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6.67 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2 is the Newtonian gravitational constant, and σ is the body’s bulk density. The axes of the body-fixed frame are along the principal axis of inertia. Assume the asteroid rotates around its biggest moment of inertia. The z-axis points to the biggest moment of inertia while the x-axis points to the smallest moment of inertia.
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Equations of motion (Scheeres 2012; Aljbaae et al. 2017) for a particle orbiting around the asteroid read
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U 2 x 2 y x x 0 U 2 0, y 2 x y y U 0 z z
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where the gravitational potential U of the asteroid can be calculated by the polyhedron
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1 1 U G re Ee re Le + G r f Ff r f f . 2 2 eedges f faces
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edge e and face f, respectively. Le is the integration factor that related to a fixed point and edge e, and ωf is the solid angle. The gravitational force acceleration U and the gravity gradient matrix U are
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The positions of equilibrium points (Jiang et al. 2014; Scheeres 2016) in the
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The linearised equations of motion in the vicinity of the equilibrium point (Jiang et al. 2014) around the asteroid follow
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0 2 0 Vxx Vxy Vxz d2 d 2 0 0 Vxy Vyy Vyz 0 . 2 dt dt 0 0 0 Vxz Vyz Vzz
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the elements of Hessian matrix of the effective potential V . The Hessian matrix of the effective potential V can be calculated by 0 0 G Ee Le +G Ff f . eedges f faces 0
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Using the rotation speed and the elements of Hessian matrix, one can compute the eigenvalues (Jiang et al. 2014, 2016) of equilibrium points
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2.1 Equilibrium Points and Zero-Velocity Surfaces for 283 Emma
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We now calculate V for 283 Emma. The density and rotational period are 0.81
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g cm3 and 6.888 h, respectively (Michałowski et al. 2006; Marchis et al. 2008). Figure 1 shows the 3D exterior shape of 283 Emma calculated by the polyhedral
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model with the observation data (Michalowski et al. 2006), where the shape is
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respectively plotted in the xy, yz, and zx planes. The model has 2032 faces and 1018 vertices. The figure indicates that the shape of 283 Emma is similar to a potato, and the shape viewed in different coordinate planes are different. The lengths of the three axes of 283 Emma are 161.34, 111.61, and 108.20 km.
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surfaces for asteroid 283 Emma. The figure indicates that 283 Emma has five equilibrium points; four of them are outside and one inside. From Figure 2, one can see that the topological structures of the zero-velocity surfaces in different coordinate planes are quite different. The number of equilibrium points near the coordinate
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planes is related to the topological structures of the zero-velocity surfaces on the coordinate planes. Near the xy plane, i.e. the equatorial plane of the asteroid, there are five equilibrium points. This is because the asteroid rotates around z-axis. Near the yz
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plane, there are three equilibrium points, which are E2, E4, and E5. Near the zx plane, there are also three equilibrium points, which are E1, E3, and E5.
Figure 3 illustrates the effective potential in different coordinate planes relative
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to the shape of the body for the asteroid 283 Emma. The value of the effective
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potential is calculated using Eq. (6), and the potential in Eq. (6) is calculated by the polyhedron model method. One can see that the irregular shape of the asteroid has
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significant influence on the effective potential. The shape of the effective potential in
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the equatorial plane looks like a circular cone surface with a hemi-ellipsoidal mirror at the bottom. The shapes of the effective potential in the yz and zx planes look like
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saddle surfaces.
Table 1 gives positions and Jacobi integrals of equilibrium points, which
indicates that all the five equilibrium points are out-of-plane equilibrium points. Besides, these equilibrium points are near the equatorial plane of 283 Emma. The inner equilibrium point E5 is near the mass center of the body. The equilibrium points 9
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E2, E4, and E5 are near the yz plane of the body-fixed frame while the equilibrium points E1, E3, and E5 are near the zx plane of the body-fixed frame. The equilibrium point E5 has the largest value of Jacobi integrals. Arraying the Jacobi integral from big to small, the equilibrium points are E5, E1, E3, E4, and E2. Table 2 illustrates
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eigenvalues of these equilibrium points. From Table 2, one can see that E5 has three pairs of imaginary eigenvalues. E1 has two pairs of imaginary eigenvalues and one pair of real eigenvalues. E2 has one pair of imaginary eigenvalues and four complex
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eigenvalues. The form of eigenvalues of E3 is the same as E1, and the form of eigenvalues of E4 is the same as E2. If the equilibrium point has three pairs of imaginary eigenvalues, the equilibrium point belongs to Case O1; if the equilibrium
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point has two pairs of imaginary eigenvalues and one pair of real eigenvalues, it belongs to Case O2; and if the equilibrium point has one pair of imaginary
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Because the shape for 283 Emma seems quite spherical, so an analysis on the influence of Emma's shape to the results, as compared to that of a spherical equivalent
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of Emma, would be of interest. The mean radius of Emma is 67.35km. Thus we calculate the effective potential of a sphere which has the radius of 67.35km and the same density and rotational speed with Emma. Figure 4 shows the shape and contour plot of effective potential in xy plane of a spherical equivalent of asteroid 283 Emma. There is only one single equilibrium point for the sphere. However, between the two 10
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contour lines for the effective potential with the value of 1000 m2s-2, there is a circle; on the circle, each of the points is an equilibrium point. The point on the circle is similar with the geostationary orbit of the Earth. Now compare Figure 4 with Figure 2(a), one can find that the distances between the equilibrium point and the mass center
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Figure 1. The 3D exterior shape of 283 Emma calculated by the polyhedral model with the
observation data. (a) 3D visual angle; (b) projection in xy plane; (c) projection in xz plane; (d) projection in yz plane.
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Figure 2. Equilibrium points and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces for asteroid 283 Emma, the unit of the values in the zero-velocity surfaces is 104m2s-2. (a) The projection of equilibrium points E1-E5 in the equatorial plane of the asteroid and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces; (b) The projection of equilibrium points E2, E4, and E5 in the yz plane of the asteroid and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces; (c) The projection of equilibrium
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Figure 3. Effective potentials in different coordinate planes for asteroid 283 Emma, the unit of the
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Figure 4. Shape and contour plot of effective potential in xy plane of a spherical equivalent for
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asteroid 283 Emma, the unit of the effective potential is 1.0 m2s-2.
Table 1 Positions and Jacobi integrals of equilibrium points in the vicinity of 283 Emma x (km)
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2.89575
0.0760579
0.908667
0.00113853
90.5246
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0.835341
-101.833
3.62567
-0.915645
0.905864
02.54511
-91.3871
0.239091
0.839646
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-0.274144
0.135453
1.28719
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Table 2 Eigenvalues of the equilibrium points around asteroid 283 Emma
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0.302826i
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0.287484i
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0.214338
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0.252690i
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0.0973867+
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0.0973867-
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0.204360i
0.204360i
0.204360i
0.204360i
0.296233i
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0.282719i
-0.282719i
0.198177
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0.257555i
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0.0910352+
-0.0910352+
0.0910352-
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0.198305i
0.198305i
0.198305i
0.198305i
0.512015i
-0.512015i
0.188540i
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0.714186i
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2.2 Equilibrium Points and Zero-Velocity Surfaces with Different Rotational Speed
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asteroid may vary due to the YORP effect. For instance, due to the YORP effect, the
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rotational acceleration of asteroids 1862 Apollo and 1620 Geographos are (5.5±1.2) ×10-8 rad∙d-2(Ďurech et al. 2008a) and (1.15±0.15)×10-8 rad∙d-2 (Ďurech et al.
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2008b). For asteroid 283 Emma, there is no data about YORP effect in previous
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literature. If the rotational acceleration of asteroid 283 Emma is 1.0×10-8 rad∙d-2, then after 6.0×106 years, the rotational speed becomes twice as it now.
Figure 5 shows equilibrium points and the contour plot of the zero-velocity
surfaces for asteroid 283 Emma when the rotational speed equals twice as it is in present. From Figure 5, one can see that there are only three equilibrium points left. 17
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The structure of the contour plot of zero-velocity surfaces in the equatorial plane, the yz plane, and the zx plane is quite different from that in Figure 2. This indicates that the structure of gravitational environment changes with the variation of the rotational speed. The equilibrium point in the middle disappears when doubling the rotational
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speed, because the rotational potentials are different for different rotational speed, which makes the structures of the effective potentials different. In Figure 5, the three equilibrium points are near the y axis of the body-fixed frame. Table 3 presents
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positions and Jacobi integrals of equilibrium points in the vicinity of 283 Emma when ω=2.0ω0. We denote the equilibrium points from the –y axis to the +y axis as F1, F2, and F3. The equilibrium points F2 is in the middle among these three equilibrium
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points, and E2 belongs to Case O2. The equilibrium points F1 and F3 belong to Case O5. This implies that all the three equilibrium points are unstable. The equilibrium
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Figure 6 shows equilibrium points and zero-velocity surfaces when the rotational speed equals a half as it is in present. There are also five equilibrium points, and the
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structure of the contour plot of zero-velocity surfaces in the equatorial plane, the yz plane, and the zx plane are the same as it in Figure 2. Table 4 presents positions and Jacobi integrals of equilibrium points in the vicinity of 283 Emma for this case. Although the positions and eigenvalues of equilibrium points are changed, the topological cases and stability of equilibrium points keep unchanged. During the 18
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variety of the rotational speed from 1.0ω0 to 2.0ω0, the number of equilibrium points changes from 5 to 3. When 1.0ω0< ω<1.615ω0, the number is 5; when ω=1.615ω0, the number changes to 4 (see Figure 7); and when 1.615ω0< ω<2.0ω0, the number is 3.
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Although the asteroid is near a sphere, the shape of the asteroid is not symmetric. This makes the component of the equilibrium points’ position on z axis is not zero. In addition, when the rotational speed changes from 1.0ω0 to 1.615ω0, the inner
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equilibrium point moves to -x axis, and the external equilibrium point E1 moves into the body of the asteroid (becomes F2 when ω=2.0ω0). However, for a sphere, the component of the equilibrium points’ position on z axis is zero; besides, when the
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Table 3 Positions and Jacobi integrals of equilibrium points in the vicinity of 283 Emma when ω=2.0ω0 Equilibrium
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y (km)
z (km)
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(1.0×103m2s-2)
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1.8
1.287
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0.40665
18.51 0
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1.289
-1.0
53.2
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1.273
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F3
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y (km)
z (km)
Jacobi integral
(1.0×103m2s-2)
Points 154.897
2.98882
-0.0548419
0.553131
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0.643105
147.427
-0.0880521
0.535093
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-154.676
3.37249
-0.328535
0.552754
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2.30239
-147.627
0.0737637
0.535480
F5
-0.142963
-0.220147
0.134873
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Figure 5. Equilibrium points and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces for asteroid 283 Emma when ω=2.0ω0, the unit of the values in the zero-velocity surfaces is 1.0×104m2s-2. (a) The projection of equilibrium points in the equatorial plane of the asteroid and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces; (b) The detailed contour plot of (a), the discrete scale in (b) is smaller than in (a); (c) The projection of equilibrium points in the yz plane of the asteroid and the contour plot
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Figure 6. Equilibrium points and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces for asteroid 283
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zero-velocity surfaces; (b) The projection of equilibrium points in the yz plane of the asteroid and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces; (c) The projection of equilibrium points in the zx plane of the asteroid and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces.
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Figure 7. Equilibrium points and the contour plot of the zero-velocity surfaces for asteroid 283
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3. Orbits in the Gravitational Potential of 283 Emma
There are several kinds of orbits around a minor body, including periodic orbits,
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Kleopatra (Jiang et al. 2015). In this section, we investigate the periodic orbits near
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the surface of asteroid 283 Emma. Four different periodic orbits have been studied. Furthermore, we simulated the general orbit near the primary's equatorial plane to analyze the motion stability of the moonlet.
3.1 Periodic Orbits near the Surface of 283 Emma
The equations of motion (Jiang et al. 2016) can also be expressed as 24
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0 I where I is the 3 3 unit matrix and 0 is the 3 3 zero matrix, J , I 0
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Denote the solution for Eq. (11) as z t f t , z 0 , which satisfies f 0, z 0 z 0 .
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has a characteristic multiplier not on the unit circle, then the periodic orbit has at least one characteristic multiplier with the modulus larger than 1, and thus the periodic orbit is unstable. If all the characteristic multipliers are on the unit circle, the periodic orbit is stable.
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different periodic orbits with the hierarchical grid searching method. Figure 8 illustrates the 3D shapes of these periodic orbits in the gravitational potential of
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asteroid 283 Emma and the distributions of characteristic multipliers. Table 5 presents
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trajectory of the periodic orbit (a) is above the equilibrium point E3 and under the equilibrium point E1. The trajectory of the periodic orbit (b) is above the equilibrium point E1 and under the equilibrium point E3. In the periodic orbit (c), the particle moves above the equilibrium point E4 and under E2. And for the periodic orbit (d),
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In the periodic orbit (a), two characteristic multipliers are on the unit circle and the other two are on the +x axis. This implies that this periodic orbit is unstable. The
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period of the inclination and the longitude of ascending node are the same, and equal the long periods of semi-major axis, eccentricity, and argument of pericenter.
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The zero-velocity surfaces and equilibrium points are investigated with the different values of the rotational speed of the asteroid 283 Emma. The zero-velocity surfaces and the positions of equilibrium points vary when the rotational speed of the asteroid 283 Emma varies. There are only three equilibrium points left when the
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Acknowledgements The authors would highly appreciate with the reference’s valuable and helpful comments and suggestions for improving the paper. This project is funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation- General Program (No. 2017M610875), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11772356), and Government-Sponsored Overseas Study for Senior Research Scholar, Visiting Scholar, and Postdoctoral Program (CSC No. 201703170036). 38
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