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Your user need to supply you with information about mean anomaly at fixed time (epoch) $M(t_0)$, and then mean anomaly at the moment $t_1$. Or about known mean motion $n$ instead of current mean anomaly $M(t_1)$. You can also get the mean motion as square root of gravitational parameter $\mu$ divided by cube of semi-major axis, and also as $2\pi$ divided by ...
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You don't have enough information. You need a minimum of one more value to determine the true anomaly such as the time of perihelion passage.
In general six values and a timestamp are needed to fully specify a Keplerian orbit. The reason six values and a timestamp are needed in the general case is that the two body problem is a second order differential ...
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