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  2. Eccentric anomaly - Wikipedia

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    The true anomaly is the angle labeled in the figure, located at the focus of the ellipse. It is sometimes represented by f or v. The true anomaly and the eccentric anomaly are related as follows. [2] Using the formula for r above, the sine and cosine of E are found in terms of f :

  3. Mean anomaly - Wikipedia

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    where M 0 is the mean anomaly at the epoch t 0, which may or may not coincide with τ, the time of pericenter passage. The classical method of finding the position of an object in an elliptical orbit from a set of orbital elements is to calculate the mean anomaly by this equation, and then to solve Kepler's equation for the eccentric anomaly.

  4. Kepler's equation - Wikipedia

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    As for instance, if the body passes the periastron at coordinates = (), =, at time =, then to find out the position of the body at any time, you first calculate the mean anomaly from the time and the mean motion by the formula = (), then solve the Kepler equation above to get , then get the coordinates from:

  5. Equation of the center - Wikipedia

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    On the computation of the eccentric anomaly, equation of the centre and radius vector of a planet, in terms of the mean anomaly and eccentricity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, p. 345. Gives the equation of the center to order e 12. Morrison, J. (1883). Errata. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol ...

  6. Orbital mechanics - Wikipedia

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    where M is the mean anomaly, E is the eccentric anomaly, and is the eccentricity. With Kepler's formula, finding the time-of-flight to reach an angle (true anomaly) of from periapsis is broken into two steps: Compute the eccentric anomaly from true anomaly

  7. Two-line element set - Wikipedia

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    The differences between the three models were slight for most objects. One year later, Spacetrack Report #3 was released, included full FORTRAN source code for the SGP4 model. [9] This quickly became the de facto standard model, both in the industry as well as the astronomy field.

  8. BRST quantization - Wikipedia

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    BRST quantization is a differential geometric approach to performing consistent, anomaly-free perturbative calculations in a non-abelian gauge theory. The analytical form of the BRST "transformation" and its relevance to renormalization and anomaly cancellation were described by Carlo Maria Becchi, Alain Rouet, and Raymond Stora in a series of papers culminating in the 1976 "Renormalization of ...

  9. Two-body problem in general relativity - Wikipedia

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    General relativity describes the gravitational field by curved space-time; the field equations governing this curvature are nonlinear and therefore difficult to solve in a closed form. No exact solutions of the Kepler problem have been found, but an approximate solution has: the Schwarzschild solution.