Modern Celestial Mechanics: From Theory to Applications

GOCE: The Earth Gravity Field by Space Gradiometry.- Symmetries and Rank Deficiency in the Orbit Determination Around Another Planet.- The Rotation of Europa.- Resonant Fly-By Missions to Near Earth Asteroids.- Analysis of the Space Debris Impacts Risk on the International Space Station.- On the Stability of the Terrestrial Planets as Models for Exosolar Planetary Systems.- Generalized Averaging Principle and the Secular Evolution of Planet Crossing Orbits.- Probing the Nekhoroshev Stability of Asteroids.- Resonant Periodic Motion and the Stability of Extrasolar Planetary Systems.- Stability in the Full Two-Body Problem.- Geometry of Chaos in Models of Stellar Dynamics.- Order and Chaos in Self-Consistent Galactic Models.- On the Relationship Between Fast Lyapunov Indicator and Periodic Orbits for Continuous Flows.- Effective Hamiltonian for the D'Alembert Planetary Model Near a Spin/Orbit Resonance.- A Systematic Study of the Stability of Symmetric Periodic Orbits in the Planar, Circular, Restricted Three-body Problem.- Estimate of the Transition Value of Librational Invariant Curves.- Ideal Resonance Problem: The Post-PostPendulum Approximation.- The Web of Periodic Orbits at L4.- Long-term Stability Analysis of Quasi Integrable Degenerate Systems Through the Spectral Formulation of the Nekhoroshev Theorem.- How the Method of Minimization of Action Avoids Singularities.- Non-existence of the Modified First Integral by Symplectic Integration Methods II: Kepler Problem.- Dynamical Evolution of the Adeona and Gefion Asteroid Families.- On the Expansion of the External Gravitational Potential in Spheroidal Harmonics.- Periodic Orbits Approximation of Analyticity Domains of Invariant Curves.- Low ?V Orbit Insertion in Interplanetary Missions.- Long-Term Dynamics of the Tunguska Cosmic Body.- On the Triangular Points of the Sun-Jupiter System.- Inter-Comparisons Between Numerical Integrations and Analytical Theory for the Solar System.- The Central Manifold for the