Timeline for Keplers equation: written in change in eccentric anomaly
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| Aug 12, 2020 at 21:57 | comment | added | S moran | ha ok I was overthinking it then! | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 4:06 | comment | added | W H G | cot is cotangent of angle. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 0:48 | comment | added | S moran | What do you mean by “cot”? | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 0:17 | comment | added | W H G | Here is a fun fact that Battin Astrodynamics gives on p. 128: calculate $\sigma$ at any point and cot gamma = sigma/$sqrt{p} where gamma is angle between radius vector and velocity (complement of usual flight path angle). | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 19:10 | comment | added | S moran | This my friend is fantastic! Thank you for the detailed response. One question though, i did see the sigma calculation, but I was trying to understand if that has any translation to a term or property of the orbit? | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 19:10 | vote | accept | S moran | ||
| Aug 11, 2020 at 19:09 | history | edited | Litho | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fixed the math
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| Aug 11, 2020 at 18:44 | history | answered | W H G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |