The apoapsis collision boundary of an interior resonance #
For resonant semimajor axes between 1 / 2 and 1, increasing eccentricity reaches the unit
primary before the parabolic limit. This file identifies the boundary eccentricity, apoapsis
time, and orientation at which the limiting ellipse meets the primary exactly.
Semimajor axis of the normalized Kepler ellipse at the (p,q) resonance.
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Eccentricity at which the resonant apoapsis reaches radius one.
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The first time at which the resonant orbit reaches apoapsis.
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Orientation which places that apoapsis at the unit primary.
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At the collision-aligned orientation, every admissible ellipse places its apoapsis on the positive rotating x-axis.
The distance from aligned apoapsis to the unit primary is the remaining apoapsis gap.
At aligned apoapsis the singular part of the disturbing function is exactly the reciprocal of the remaining gap to collision.
At the boundary eccentricity and aligned orientation, apoapsis is exactly the unit primary.
The collision-aligned position approaches the unit primary at most linearly in the joint eccentricity/time displacement. This is the local estimate behind the logarithmic blowup of the averaged Newtonian singularity.
Quantitative neighborhood form of collisionAlignedPosition_isBigO.