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Hill Stability of Configurations in the Full N-Body Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2016

D. J. Scheeres
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Rigorous results on Hill Stability for the classical N-body problem are in general unknown for N ≥ 3, due to the complex interactions that may occur between bodies and the many different outcomes which may occur. However, the addition of finite density for the bodies along with a rigidity assumption on their mass distribution allows for Hill stability to be easily established. In this note we generalize results on Hill stability developed for the Full 3-body problem and show that it can be applied to the Full N-body problem. Further, we find that Hill Stability concepts can be applied to identify types of configurations which can escape and types which cannot as a function of the system energy.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S318: Asteroids: New Observations, New Models , August 2015 , pp. 128 - 134
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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