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ELLIPTICAL ORBITS BY MEANS OF LUNI-SOLAR

PERTURBATIONS AND MOON RESONANCES

Camilla Colombo (1), Elisa Maria Alessi (2), Markus Landgraf (3)
(1)
University of Southampton, Highfield, SO17 1BJ Southampton, UK, Email: c.colombo@soton.ac.uk
(2)
IFAC-CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Email: em.alessi@ifac.cnr.it
(3)
ESA/ESOC, Robert-Bosch-Straße 5, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany, Email: Markus.Landgraf@esa.int


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