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Consider the Earth-Moon-particle system as a Restricted Three Body Problem. There are two equilateral libration points. In the actual world system, those points are no longer relative equilibrium points mainly due to the effect of the Sun and to the noncircular motion of the Moon around the Earth. In this paper we present the problem as a perturbation of the RTBP and we look for the dynamical equivalent of L 4,5. It turns out to be a quasiperiodic orbit. It is obtained for a simplified model but the procedure to obtain it is general and can be carried out with an additional computational effort.
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Díez, C., Jorba, À. & Simó, C. A dynamical equivalent to the equilateral libration points of the earth-moon system. Celestial Mech Dyn Astr 50, 13–29 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00048984
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00048984