@inproceedings{fe8bdfb008214f8fb719709b774b0bd5,
title = "The dynamics of comet shoemaker-levy 9: Initial capture phase",
abstract = "The impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) with Jupiter in 1994 was the ultimate confirmation of Eugene Shoemaker's theory that impacts are a common, fundamental process in the Solar System. On Earth, asteroid impacts have produced several near extinction level events. We tend to visualize these collisions as billiard balls hitting one another. But how, exactly, do they occur? The actual dynamics is much more complex and subtle because it is highly nonlinear and involves chaos in the Three-Body Problem. In this paper we investigate the effects of Lyapunov orbits, halo orbits, and their associated invariant manifolds, on the orbital motion of SL9. We demonstrate that periodic orbits act as gateways to Jupiter, and their invariant manifolds control the dynamics of SL9 during the Initial Capture Phase.",
author = "Travis Swenson and Robyn Woollands and Martin Lo",
note = "Travis Swenson was funded through the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship. Robyn Woollands was funded by the JPL Center Innovation Fund (CIF). Martin Lo was funded through CIF, NSTRF, and NASA funds.; 27th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2017 ; Conference date: 05-02-2017 Through 09-02-2017",
year = "2017",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780877036371",
series = "Advances in the Astronautical Sciences",
publisher = "Univelt Inc.",
pages = "261--283",
editor = "Sims, \{Jon A.\} and Leve, \{Frederick A.\} and McMahon, \{Jay W.\} and Yanping Guo",
booktitle = "Spaceflight Mechanics 2017",
address = "United States",
}