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Sunday, February 05, 2006

Celestial mechanics: An Excellent Paper

Click on the link above to go to a page introducing the paper:

New Methods in Celestial Mechanics and Mission Design by Jerrold E. Marsden and Shane D. Ross

Then, go to the pdf icon and click there for the entire paper.

This paper is a terrific introduction into how space missions are planned based on numerical solutions to N-body problems in gravitation. Worth your time.

P.S. Don't let the few equations in the paper deter you; the text is self-contained without needing to work with the equations.

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