The evolution of an orbiting debris cloud in highly eccentric orbits
Abstract
An analytical model is developed for the debris cloud dynamics following a breakup or a collision with a space object in an elliptic orbit. The shape and volume of the debris cloud are determined for a spherically symmetric distribution of the initial spread velocities.
- Publication:
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Astrodynamics 1989
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990asdy.conf..862Z
- Keywords:
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- Astrodynamics;
- Eccentric Orbits;
- Space Debris;
- Spacecraft Breakup;
- Analytic Functions;
- Orbital Mechanics;
- Astrodynamics