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Orbital Arc Length as a Universal Independent Variable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Luis Floria
Luis Floria*
Affiliation:
Grupo de Mecánica Celeste I, Universidad de Valladolid Valladolid, Spain

Abstract

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A uniform treatment of the two-body problem leads to a differential time transformation to introduce the arc length along the orbit as the independent variable. The transformation is integrated in terms of the classical anomalies.

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