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| Aug 20, 2021 at 9:14 | comment | added | SE - stop firing the good guys | So essentially, since the rotation necessarily has to be rapid, most orbits are "high" orbits, which can be approximately modelled by J2. Nice! | |
| Aug 20, 2021 at 2:34 | comment | added | uhoh | This is an interesting point! The smaller a body is, the faster it can rotate before "rapid unscheduled disassembly" while at the same time the longer the period at a given distance. Of course for a low orbit the period is independent of size and only depends on average density). But I feel your answer is incomplete as it only explores one end of the parameter space; the easy end. What if the periods were comparable or the orbital period was shorter? | |
| Aug 20, 2021 at 0:57 | history | answered | Oscar Lanzi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |