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Tisserand invariant with respect to Jupiter #13

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mkelley opened this issue Jun 25, 2021 · 0 comments
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Tisserand invariant with respect to Jupiter #13

mkelley opened this issue Jun 25, 2021 · 0 comments
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mkelley commented Jun 25, 2021

For isolating objects in cometary orbits and discriminating between cometary dynamical classes, the Tisserand invariant with respect to Jupiter is very helpful:

T_J = a_J / a + 2 * cos(i) * sqrt(a / a_J * (1 - e**2))

Having this in the mpcorb table, or even coded into a table view, would make quick work for the above use case.

What to do when e=1? It might be T_J = 0, but need to verify that some other time.

@mjuric mjuric added the enhancement New feature or request label Jun 28, 2021
@mschwamb mschwamb added the DP0.3 label Aug 6, 2023
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