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Secular love and tidal numbers of synchronously orbiting satellites

✍ Scribed by M. Burša

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
238 KB
Volume
43
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-0794

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✦ Synopsis

The secular Love and the secular tidal numbers have been computed for eight synchronously orbiting satellites in the solar system for which the triaxiality parameters and satellite-centric gravitational constant are available. Excepting Deimos the total mass of which should be first refined, the secular Love and tidal numbers are rather close to unity, as a rule. That is why, the centrifugal and tidal distortions can be assumed responsible for the actual figures of the synchronously orbiting satellites resulting from the primordial spheres, as well as, their static equilibrium nearly satisfied. The hypothesis of the origin of synchronously orbiting satellites by accretion in orbits is supported by the results obtained.

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