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    Effects of Tidal Forces on the Minimum Energy Configurations of the Full Three Body Problem
    (2016) Levine, Edward; Hartzell, Christine; Aerospace Engineering; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    We investigate the evolution of minimum energy configurations for the Full Three Body Problem (3BP). A stable ternary asteroid system will gradually become unstable due to the Yarkovsky-O’Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect and an unpredictable trajectory will ensue. Through the interaction of tidal torques, energy in the system will dissipate in the form of heat until a stable minimum energy configuration is reached. We present a simulation that describes the dynamical evolution of three bodies under the mutual effects of gravity and tidal torques. Simulations show that bodies do not get stuck in local minima and transition to the predicted minimum energy configuration.