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  • Unfortunately, the state of celestial/orbital mechanics in Wikipedia is scattered, disorganized, redundant. Where does one begin?
    • I had started documenting some of the problems here, but it was becoming overwhelming. Letting it go. Tfr000 (talk) 14:36, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
  • for a mechanics article which has been worked over into something pretty decent, see Classical_central-force_problem Tfr000 (talk) 22:43, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Astronomical_system_of_units needs to be fixed. Some just plain wrong information in it. Tfr000 (talk) 13:42, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
  • Still need to do some research into where the term anomaly came from. Kepler? Apparently, anomaly is a very ancient term, going back to Ptolemy and the Almagest at least. It was Kepler who gave precise definitions to the anomalies which we now associate with orbital mechanics. Tfr000 (talk) 22:43, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
  • true longitude is a stub.
  • true anomaly has no real references. It needs some kind of flow. It's currently a bunch of scattered equations.
  • angular momentum:
    • add something about dimensions...? might be a bit odd for something like ang mom.
    • re-organize some of the math sections, especially "solid body"
    • perhaps add some graphics Tfr000 (talk) 22:27, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
  • Torque: Here is the entire History section: "The concept of torque, also called moment or couple, originated with the studies of Archimedes on levers. The rotational analogues of force, mass, and acceleration are torque, moment of inertia and angular acceleration, respectively." One of these two sentences has nothing to do with history! Tfr000 (talk) 19:24, 24 May 2015 (UTC) Partially fixed now. It needs some research into "moment of force" and whatnot. Tfr000 (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
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Frequently used references

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Almanacs

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[almanacs 1] [almanacs 2] [almanacs 3] [almanacs 4]

  1. ^ U.S. Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac Office; U.K. Hydrographic Office, H.M. Nautical Almanac Office (2008). The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2010. U.S. Govt. Printing Office. ISBN 978-0160820083.
  2. ^ Seidelmann, P. Kenneth; Urban, Sean E., eds. (2013). Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (3rd ed.). University Science Books, Mill Valley, CA. p. 648. ISBN 978-1-891389-85-6.
  3. ^ U.S. Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac Office (1992). P. Kenneth Seidelmann (ed.). Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (2nd ed.). University Science Books, Mill Valley, CA. ISBN 0-935702-68-7.
  4. ^ U.S. Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac Office; H.M. Nautical Almanac Office (1961). Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. H.M. Stationery Office, London.

Spherical astronomy

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[spherical 1] [spherical 2] [spherical 3] [spherical 4]

  1. ^ Chauvenet, William (1906). A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy. Vol. I. J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. , at Google books
  2. ^ Newcomb, Simon (1906). A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy. MacMillan Co., New York. , at Google books
  3. ^ Ball, Robert S. (1908). A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy. Cambridge University Press. , at Google books
  4. ^ Smart, W. M. (1977). Textbook on Spherical Astronomy (sixth ed.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-29180-1.

General astronomy

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[general 1] [general 2]

  1. ^ Newcomb, Simon; Holden, Edward S. (1890). Astronomy. Henry Holt and Co., New York. , at Google books
  2. ^ Moulton, Forest Ray (1918). An Introduction to Astronomy. Macmillan Co., New York. , at Google books

Ephemeris calculation

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[ephemeris 1] [ephemeris 2]

  1. ^ Montenbruck, Oliver (1989). Practical Ephemeris Calculations. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-50704-3.
  2. ^ Meeus, Jean (1991). Astronomical Algorithms. Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond, VA. ISBN 0-943396-35-2.

Celestial mechanics and astrodynamics

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[celestialmech 1] [celestialmech 2] [celestialmech 3] [celestialmech 4] [celestialmech 5] [celestialmech 6] [celestialmech 7]

  1. ^ Danby, J.M.A. (1988). Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics. Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond, VA. ISBN 0-943396-20-4.
  2. ^ Roy, A.E. (1988). Orbital Motion (third ed.). Institute of Physics Publishing. ISBN 0-85274-229-0.
  3. ^ Vallado, David A. (2001). Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications (second ed.). Microcosm Press, El Segundo, CA. ISBN 1-881883-12-4.
  4. ^ Smart, W. M. (1953). Celestial Mechanics. Longmans, Green and Co., London.
  5. ^ Bate, Roger R.; Mueller, Donald D.; White, Jerry E. (1971). Fundamentals of Astrodynamics. Dover Publications, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-486-60061-0.
  6. ^ Brouwer, Dirk; Clemence, Gerald M. (1961). Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Academic Press, New York and London.
  7. ^ Moulton, Forest Ray (1914). An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics (second revised ed.). Macmillan Co., New York., at Google books
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