Questions tagged [apsidal-precession]
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Apsidal precession
I found this article about calculating apsidal precession:
https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/336k/Newton/node115.html
I tried to calculate rate of apsidal precession from this equation, but I had ...
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Problem with the Orbital Precession predicted by the Relativistic Acceleration equation used in the JPL D440-D441 Ephemerides - please advise
I have previously encountered a problem with the equation used by Yeomans and others for determining the gravitational acceleration of comets (see update in my answer to the previous question Can ...
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What is approximate numerical equation of the apsidal precession of the Earth-Moon barycenter?
What is approximate numerical equation of the apsidal precession of the Earth-Moon barycenter? Or is it only constant 11.45 arcsec/year with unchanged accuracy to 0.01 arcsec/year for a million years?...
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What is meant by "revolution of Sun's apogee"?
While reading Translation of the Surya Siddhanta and of the Siddhanta Siromani(1861) - Bapu Deva Shastri, I stuck in the follwing.
Chapter I, verse 41 & 42
In a KALPA (4.32 billion years), there ...
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Apsidal Precession: What Am I Getting Wrong?
In Precession of Mercury’s Perihelion from Ranging to the MESSENGER Spacecraft (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AJ....153..121P/abstract), one finds the precession of Mercury’s perihelion due to ...
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