Beyond Point Masses. III. Detecting Haumea’s Nonspherical Gravitational Field

@article{Proudfoot2024BeyondPM,
  title={Beyond Point Masses. III. Detecting Haumea’s Nonspherical Gravitational Field},
  author={Benjamin C. N. Proudfoot and Darin A. Ragozzine and William G. Giforos and Will M. Grundy and Mariah G. MacDonald and William J. Oldroyd},
  journal={The Planetary Science Journal},
  year={2024},
  volume={5},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:268412113}
}
The dwarf planet Haumea is one of the most compelling trans-Neptunian objects to study, hosting two small, dynamically interacting satellites, a family of nearby spectrally unique objects, and a ring system. Haumea itself is extremely oblate due to its 3.9 hr rotation period. Understanding the orbits of Haumea’s satellites, named Hi’iaka and Namaka, requires detailed modeling of both satellite–satellite gravitational interactions and satellite interactions with Haumea’s nonspherical… 
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