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The effect of step-size on the numerical integration of satellite orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

K.G. Hadjifotinou
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece
D. Harper
Affiliation:
Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK

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This work is a continuation of our study of the efficiency of two well-known methods for the numerical integration of the equations of motion of planetary satellites together with the variational equations of the system. The methods are the 10th-order Gauss-Jackson backward-difference method described in [4, 6] and the Runge-Kutta-Nyström RKN12(10)17M [1].

Type
Part III - Satellites: Theory and Ephemerides
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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