The term “jumping” Trojans is used to specify those asteroids that pass at time to time from the motion around one triangular libration point to another one. We explore the motion of “jumping” Trojans under the scope of the restricted planar elliptical three-body problem. Via double numerical averaging we construct evolutionary equations which allow to analyze the details of the transition between different regimes of the orbital motion.
Keywords:
restricted three-body problem, mean motion resonance, Trojan asteroids
