Study of the potential of irregular shaped bodies and orbits around a non-spherical body
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In the present work we show the expressions of the gravitational potential of homogeneous bodies with non-spherical three-dimensional shapes in order to study the trajectories around these bodies. The potentials of a prolate and an oblate ellipsoids with different values of semi-major axis are presented. Their results are validated with a test using a spherical body in order to guarantee the approximation of any body as a polyhedral model of the body. With these expressions we study trajectories of a point of mass around the three-dimensional bodies and the results indicated that there is a group of orbits around those bodies and the polyhedral form of the object does work very well. Copyright IAF/IAA. All rights reserved.
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Orbits, Three dimensional, Trajectories, Gravitational potentials, Major axes, Polyhedral models, Spherical bodies, Spheres
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International Astronautical Federation - 58th International Astronautical Congress 2007, v. 7, p. 4384-4390.
