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We study the escape and capture in the Planar and Circular Restricted Three Body Problem(RTBP) when the mass m of the secondary body is small enough. The RTBP has essentially different characteristics when m is zero or not. The non-integrability of the problem for m ≠ 0 causes homoclinic phenomena that do not exist for m = 0: we show here some of the phenomena related to the escape and capture orbits when the Jacobi constant C is big enough. Otherwise, the diffusion of parabolic orbits near the collision with the secondary is much richer for m ≠ 0: the changes of sidereal energy in paths near collision are proved to be more important in some cases than in pure collision, which is the sole possibility of change for m = 0. The last analysis is done using a simple model of that orbits in the RTBP made by matching arcs of Keplerian orbits on a suitable circle centered at that small body.
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Benseny, A., Olvera, A. (1988). Escape and Capture in the RTBP. In: Roy, A.E. (eds) Long-Term Dynamical Behaviour of Natural and Artificial N-Body Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 246. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3053-7_32
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