RESEARCH  INTERESTS

Astrodynamics Analytical and numerical methods with applications in Orbit determination Satellite dynamics Rigid body attitude dynamics
Asteroids The identification problem. (See the orbit of the asteroid (9013) Sansaturio) Near Earth Objects
Dynamical systems Non-integrability  Chaos

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Preprints available on line

• Non-integrable cases in satellite dynamics, with J.M. Ferrándiz and I. Vigo-Aguiar. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Positional Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics, Astronomical Observatory of the Valencia University, pp. 101-108 (1998). (HTML version) (gzipped postscript 37KB)
• Non-integrability of the motion of a point mass around a planet of arbitrary shape, with J.M. Ferrándiz and I. Vigo-Aguiar. In The Dynamics of Small Bodies in the Solar System: A Major Key to Solar Systems Studies, NATO ASI Series, Kluwer, pp. 295-302 (1999). (HTML version) (gzipped postscript 35KB)
• The asteroid identification problem (extended abstract), with A. Milani, A. La Spina and K. Muinonen. In Impacts of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy, Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium 172, J. Henrard and S. Ferraz-Melo Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 363-364 (1999). (HTML version) (gzipped postscript 14KB)
• The asteroid identification problem III: Proposing identifications, with A. Milani, A. La Spina and S.R. Chesley. In Icarus, 144, pp. 39-53 (2000). (HTML version) (gzipped postscript 211KB)