Spin-orbit coupling and chaotic rotation for circumbinary bodies - Application to the small satellites of the Pluto-Charon system

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Issue		A&A Volume 580, August 2015


Article Number		L14
Number of page(s)		7
Section		Letters
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526800
Published online		20 August 2015

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	Fig. 4 Possible evolutions for the spin of Hydra. We show the rotation (in red) and the cosine of the obliquity (in blue). We numerically integrated the equations of the three-body problem together with Eqs. (A.1), (A.2), and (A.13) for the rotational motion. We adopt an initial retrograde rotation of 4.4 days with different initial values of θ, and an initial obliquity of 30°.
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