A Note on a General Algorithm for Two-Body Expansions

Author: Henrard Jacques  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0923-2958

Source: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Vol.76, Iss.4, 2000-04, pp. : 283-289

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Abstract

This note describes briefly a technique, easily implemented with most computer algebra systems, for the purpose of computing the two-body expansions (in powers of the eccentricity and in Fourier series of the mean-anomaly) of a large class of functions of the distance, the true anomaly and/or the eccentric anomaly.