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A Note on the Development of the Reciprocal Distance in Planetary Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Abstract

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In a development of the reciprocal distance (1/Δ) between two planets, their orbital inclinations, in a sense, improve the convergence, though the development is carried out in powers of the inclinations. This is most clearly shown in the Neptune-Pluto case: if their inclinations, 2° and 17°, are assumed to be 0°, the two orbits cross each other. The development in the actual case ought to be easier than in the assumed case with vanishing inclinations.

Type
Part III. Numerical and Other Techniques
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978