Time-varying Geometric Orbital Elements of Saturn's Moons
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting
- Publication Date
- May 26, 2013
- Volume
- 44
- Source
- SETI Institute
- License
- White
Abstract
(2,250 Maximum Characters): The orbital elements of Saturn s moons are a moving target. Not only do they change with time due to gravitational interactions among the moons, but the familiar osculating elements are often not physically meaningful because of Saturn s large oblateness. Starting with numerical orbit integrations constrained by ground-based and spacecraft observations (eg, Jacobson et al. 2008, AJ), we express the orbits of Saturn s moons in terms of the physically meaningful" epicyclic elements" derived in several ...
