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Two special cases of the problem of the secular perturbations in the orbital elements of a satellite with a negligible mass produced by the joint influence of the oblateness of the central planet and the attraction by its most massive (or main) satellites and the Sun are considered. These cases are among the integrable ones in the general nonintegrable evolution problem. The first case is realized when the plane of the satellite orbit and the rotation axis of the planet lie in its orbital plane. The second case is realized when the plane of the satellite orbit is orthogonal to the line of intersection between the equatorial and orbital planes of the planet. The corresponding particular solutions correspond to those polar satellite orbits for which the main qualitative features of the evolution of the eccentricity and pericenter argument are described here. Families of integral curves have been constructed in the phase plane of these elements for the satellite systems of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
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Original Russian Text © M.A. Vashkov’yak, 2016, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2016, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 37–47.
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Vashkov’yak, M.A. Qualitative features of the evolution of some polar satellite orbits. Sol Syst Res 50, 33–43 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094615060064
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094615060064