A Note on Modified Restricted Three-Body Problem.

The belief that celestial bodies as perfect spheres results in certain idealistic conditions because most often they are in irregular shapes. With this in mind, we conduct an analysis to study the restricted three-body problem by taking the primaries as oblate spheroids. The modified mean motion expression [1] is used by incorporating the secular perturbation effect due to oblateness of the primaries on mean anomaly, argument of perigee and right ascension of ascending node. The model possesses five equilibrium points, which are subsequently affected by the oblateness parameters. Furthermore, we have studied the stability of the equilibrium points and it is observed that the collinear equilibrium points are always unstable. However, the non-collinear equilibrium points are stable for some combinations of the involved parameters. We have also plotted the zero velocity curves of the infinitesimal body for different values of the Jacobian constant and oblateness parameter. It has been observed that the value of the Jacobian constant has been playing a vital role in obtaining the permissible regions of motion of the infinitesimal body. Further, the results obtained of the study are applied to study the motion of a satellite in the Saturn–Titan system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]