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This volume contains papers presented at the US/European Celestial Mecha nics Workshop organized by the Astronomical Observatory of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland and held in Poznan, from 3 to 7 July 2000. The purpose of the workshop was to identify future research in celestial mech anics and encourage collaboration among scientists from eastem and westem coun tries. There was a full program of invited and contributed presentations on selected subjects and each day ended with a discussion period on a general subject in celestial mechanics. The discussion topics and the leaders were: Resonances and Chaos-A. Morbidelli; Artificial Satellite Orbits-K. T. Alfriend; Near Earth Ob jects - K. Muinonen; Small Solar System Bodies - I. Williams; and Summary - P. K. Seidelmann. The goal of the discussions was to identify what we did not know and how we might further our knowledge. The size of the meeting and the language differences somewhat limited the real discussion, but, due to the excellence of the different discussion leaders, each of these sessions was very interesting and productive. Celestial Mechanics and Astrometry are both small fields within the general subject of Astronomy. There is also an overlap and relationship between these fields and Astrodynamics. The amount of interaction depends on the interest and efforts of individual scientists.
List of contents
On the Attitude Dynamics of Perturbed Triaxial Rigid Bodies; A. Elipe, M. Vallejo. A Simplified Kinetic Element Formulation for the Rotation of a Perturbed Mass Asymmetric Rigid Body; J.W. Mitchell, D.L. Richardson. Resonance and Capture of Jupiter Comets; W.S. Koon, et al. Changes in Rotational Angular Momentum due to Gravitational Interaction between Two Finite Bodies; D.J. Scheeres. Symmetries, Reduction and Relative Equilibria for a Gyrostat in the Three-body Problem; F. Mondéjar, et al. Quasi-static Motions of Viscoelastic Satellites; B.S. Bardin, A.J. Maciejewski. Formation Flying Satellites: Control by an Astrodynamicist; K.T. Alfriend, S.R. Varadi.Low Energy Transfer to the Moon; W.S. Koon. Dissipative Forces and External Resonances; S. Jancart, A. Lemaitre. Lunisolar Resonances Revisited; S. Breiter. Collision Probability for Earth-Crossing Asteroids Using Orbital Ranging; K. Muinonen, J. Virtanen. The Dynamics of Meteoroid Streams; I.P. Williams. New Estimation of Usually Neglected Forces Acting On Galilean System; V. Leiney.Occurrence of Planetary Rings with Shepherds; L. Benet. On the Relationship between Fast Lapunov Indicator and Periodic Orbits for Symplectic Mappings; E. Lega, C. Froeschlé. On the Observability of Radiation Forces Acting on Near-Earth Asteroids; D. Vokrouhlický, S.R. Chesley. Stellar Motions in Galactic Satellites; J.C. Muzzio.
About the author
P. Kenneth Seidelmann worked in the Nautical Almanac and Orbital Mechanics Departments of the U. S. Naval Observatory for 35 years, reaching the level of Director of Astrometry at USNO. He has been involved in the ephemerides developments, relativistic developments of dynamical time scales, and the applications of improved accuracies of time scales and astrometry. He is currently a Research Professor at the University of Virginia. He is editor of the 'Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac', coauthor of 'Fundamentals of Astrometry', and author of a large number of papers on astronomy.
Summary
This volume contains papers presented at the US/European Celestial Mecha nics Workshop organized by the Astronomical Observatory of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland and held in Poznan, from 3 to 7 July 2000. The purpose of the workshop was to identify future research in celestial mech anics and encourage collaboration among scientists from eastem and westem coun tries. There was a full program of invited and contributed presentations on selected subjects and each day ended with a discussion period on a general subject in celestial mechanics. The discussion topics and the leaders were: Resonances and Chaos-A. Morbidelli; Artificial Satellite Orbits-K. T. Alfriend; Near Earth Ob jects - K. Muinonen; Small Solar System Bodies - I. Williams; and Summary - P. K. Seidelmann. The goal of the discussions was to identify what we did not know and how we might further our knowledge. The size of the meeting and the language differences somewhat limited the real discussion, but, due to the excellence of the different discussion leaders, each of these sessions was very interesting and productive. Celestial Mechanics and Astrometry are both small fields within the general subject of Astronomy. There is also an overlap and relationship between these fields and Astrodynamics. The amount of interaction depends on the interest and efforts of individual scientists.
