Canonical elements for collision orbits (Q5948640)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1671470
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1671470 |
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Canonical elements for collision orbits (English)
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2001
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The author defines a new set of canonical elements, suitable for the description of Keplerian orbits with high eccentricity, which remain well-defined for collision orbits. He uses spherical angular coordinates of the unit vector pointing to the aphelion of the orbit as new coordinates, and supplies a generating function for canonical transformation from Delaunay elements to the new ones.
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spherical angular coordinates
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Denaunay elements
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